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A male Senufo, Rhythm Pounder

A male Senufo, Rhythm Pounder

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A male Senufo, Rhythm Pounder, called Déblé, Northern Ivory Coast, region of Boudiali, collected in the village Nafou, standing on a cylindrical, slightly conical base, on flattened high abstract feet and columnar legs, torso with a pointed navel, rounded shoulders and open work arms, the large stylized hands resting close to the hips, a thick neck supporting an oval head with protruding chin and a flattened facial plane, the coiffure three-parted with a domed middle crest; a fine touch patina is demonstrating a long-lasting ritual use; brown to reddish patina, partly shiny.

According to Gottschalk, who tried to create a typology of the Senufo Déblé, this example would probably be assigned to the group of the kulibèlè and not the fonombèlè.

"Während die ersteren (fonombèlè) entweder wegen mangelnder Fähigkeit zu feinerer Arbeit (the fonombèlè are the blacksmiths in the Senufo society) oder als bewußt eingesetztes Stilmittel die klaren und wuchtigen Formen, die kontrastierenden Waagerechten und Senkrechten weitgehend so beließen, wie sie bei der Festlegung der Proportionen entstanden waren, bemühen sich die kulibèlè (the traditional carver) um ein weiches Ineinanderfließen der Körperteile, soweit sie nicht den Stil ihrer älteren Brüder in ihre Arbeit aufnahmen oder ihn mehr oder weniger kopierten. Burkhard Gottschal , "Senufo, Massa und die Statuen des Poro", 2002, 43.

More realistic sounds the opinion of Glaze, who described the difficulties of a stylistic typology according to both ethnic groups after she did fieldwork around Kufulo (region of Dikodougou). Anita J. Glaze, "Art and Death in a Senufo Village", Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1981, 7.

3.600 - 4.200,- Euro

Height: 114 cm
Weight: 6,8 kg

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