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Senufo Maternity Figure – Ivory Coast

This beautiful hand-carved anthropomorphic figure comes from the Ivory Coast/Mali and is called Tugubele. It has preserved its authenticity, surface, and aged patina. The wood carving is exquisite and exaggerated features, have all of the hallmarks of the Senufo people. This impressive representation depicts a mother nursing an infant. The sculpture is used to honor women and their maternal role in ceremonies and festivals of the tyekpa society, a social association among the Senufo peoples. The delicate infant is lying on his mother's lap, while the mother remains stoic. The head of the mother is rendered in a rather expressionistic fashion, with pronounced mouth, large eyes, and crestlike coiffure. Her slit eyes suggest a sense of introspection and serenity as she fulfills her maternal obligations. The surface of the figure is finished in a lustrous sticky patina, indicating the frequent application of oils as spiritual libations, but also to preserve the piece.

Made of 100% wood

Model is W 40 – H 93 and weight 6 kg.

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Senufo hornbird Sejen – Ivory Coast

The social, economic and spiritual lives of Senufo men are governed by an overarching initiation society known as Poro. 'the first ancestor', or sejen; meaning 'bird') hornbill figure believed to represent the Senufo primordial ancestors—Koulotiolo, creator of the world, and Katieleo, the mother of the village. An emblem of the authority and wisdom of elders within Senufo communities, the hornbill figures are kept in the forests near where young boys are initiated, to protect them from malicious forces. They are also carried on the heads of initiates during Poro ceremonies.

Made of 100% wood, pigment.

Model is W 93 – H 30 and weight 6.9 kg.

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Senufo Kpelie Mask – Ivory Coast

Handcarved yellow Janus Kpelie wooden mask from the Senufo people of Ivory Coast/Mali – a very rare and special double initiation mask, representing the faces of ancestors. It has preserved its authenticity, surface and aged patina. The wood carving is exquisite and exaggerated features, have all of the hallmarks of the Ivory Coast/Mali Senufo people Kpelie mask. Beautiful, mysterious and poetic, imbued with the cultural narrative of its people and its time.

Made of 100% wood, pigment.

Model is W 20 – H 40 and weight 0.8 kg.
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Senufo Sculpture – Mali

This Senufo Kpelie hand-carved wooden mask comes from the Ivory Coast/Mali. It has preserved its authenticity, surface and aged patina. The wood carving is exquisite and exaggerated features, have all of the hallmarks of the Ivory Coast/Mali Senufo people’s ‘Kpelie’ mask. Beautiful, mysterious and poetic, imbued with the cultural narrative of its people and its time.

Made of 100% wood.

Model is W 20 – H 65 and weight 3kg.

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Senufo Kpelie Mask – Ivory Coast

This pigmented yellow Senufo Kpelie hand-carved wooden mask comes from the Ivory Coast/Mali. It has preserved its authenticity, surface and aged patina. The wood carving is exquisite and exaggerated features, have all of the hallmarks of the Ivory Coast/Mali Senufo people’s ‘Kpelie’ mask. Beautiful, mysterious and poetic, imbued with the cultural narrative of its people and its time.

Made of 100% wood, pigment.

Model is W 18 – H 30 and weight 0.6 kg.

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Senufo Kpelie Mask – Ivory Coast

Handcarved yellow Janus Kpelie wooden mask from the Senufo people of Ivory Coast/Mali – a very rare and special double initiation mask, representing the faces of ancestors. It has preserved its authenticity, surface and aged patina. The wood carving is exquisite and exaggerated features, have all of the hallmarks of the Ivory Coast/Mali Senufo people Kpelie mask. Beautiful, mysterious and poetic, imbued with the cultural narrative of its people and its time.

Made of 100% wood, pigment.

Model is W 18 – H 30 and weight 0.6 kg.

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Senufo Kpelie Mask – Ivory Coast

This Senufo Kpelie hand-carved wooden mask comes from the Ivory Coast/Mali. It has preserved its authenticity, surface and aged patina. The wood carving is exquisite and exaggerated features, have all of the hallmarks of the Ivory Coast/Mali Senufo people’s ‘Kpelie’ mask. Beautiful, mysterious and poetic, imbued with the cultural narrative of its people and its time.

Made of 100% wood.

Model is W 18 – H 30 and weight 0.6 kg.

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Senufo Kpelie Mask – Ivory Coast

This Senufo Kpelie hand-carved wooden mask comes from the Ivory Coast/Mali. It has preserved its authenticity, surface and aged patina. The wood carving is exquisite and exaggerated features, have all of the hallmarks of the Ivory Coast/Mali Senufo people’s ‘Kpelie’ mask. Beautiful, mysterious and poetic, imbued with the cultural narrative of its people and its time.

Made of 100% wood

Model is W 16 – H 30 and weight 0.9 kg.

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Fetish Charm Senufo Doll – Mali

An old fetish doll that lies outside the realm of anything recognizable in nature. It belongs to the works and the ritual practice of the Senufo tribe. The figure give visual representation to invisible bush spirits and function as divination devices. Believed to be used to uncover misdeeds, false testimony, and culpability. Although such works have the potential to affect all members of a Senufo community, access to this doll oracle is restricted to the most enlightened senior male and, occasionally, female members, who keep it shrouded in secrecy.

Made of 100% Wood, iron, woven fiber, organic material, cowrie shell.

Model is W 25 – H 45 and weight 0.3 kg.

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Fetish Charm Senufo Doll – Mali

An old fetish doll that lies outside the realm of anything recognizable in nature. It belongs to the works and the ritual practice of the Senufo tribe. The figure give visual representation to invisible bush spirits and function as divination devices. Believed to be used to uncover misdeeds, false testimony, and culpability. Although such works have the potential to affect all members of a Senufo community, access to this doll oracle is restricted to the most enlightened senior male and, occasionally, female members, who keep it shrouded in secrecy.

Made of 100% Wood, iron, woven fiber, organic material, cowrie shell.

Model is W 25 – H 50 and weight 0.2 kg.

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Senufo Container – Mali

The Senufo produce a rich variety of sculptures, mainly associated with the poro society. This vessel or pot has red pigment and a bird zoomorphic lid, could the head of a hornbill. Many wood carvings of Senufo people depict bush spirits and supernatural beings and equestrian figures. Large statues representing hornbills used in the Lo society are symbols of fertility. Figures of the hornbill are used in initiation, and groups of birds on a pole are trophies for the best farmer.

Made of 100% wood, pigment

Model is W 20 - H 46 and weight 1.8 kg.

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Iron Forged Spear, Senufo

The piece featured here is an iron-forged spear for hunting or fishing from the Senufo tribe in Mali. The most notable weapons were made using a long wooden sheath and a metallic head as well as the bow and arrows and shields often made from animal hide. Spears were leaf shaped with along wooden shaft.The weapons consisted of spears and special javelins.Sometimes these were attached to a long string so that, after spearing an enemy, the spear could be pulled back again and used once more.

Made of 100% Iron, bamboo.

Model is W 8 – H 102 and weight 0.4 kg.

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