Senufo-1629-Nijmegen-museum
Senufo-statue-Nijmegen-museum information request of availability ADD TO CART (click to email) price: 1,300 € H= 15,8 cm related object: Senufo Deble A small Senufo figure coming from the Nijmegen Museum, with a painted collection number underneath and clear signs of use. Condition: Senufo statue, wood and offering traces, one hand missing Senufo 1629 information request of availability See this Word document Museum screenshot taken from the website, with the Museum image (click image) : Made from a little white colored wood, it represent a human figure without clear gender. Black-brown patina partly shiny, partly dusty. On his left arm some small part of the wood are missing, maybe eaten by a little animal, or used to be eaten during a ceremony. According to Anita Glaze this type of little statues was used during in the Sando secret society for divination. The Sando being a woman's association, opposed to the Poro who is a men's association. This kind of statues is called Madebele and can represents a spirit of the forest, or an ideal men or woman (more probable in this case) .Arms clearly detached fro body with stylized hands on the belly, finders of one of the hands is missing. Legs without feet's on a round base. The coiffure like a cape with a little hair look like extension in the back. Senufo statueProvenance: the Volkenkundig Museum Nijmegen
Source: www.svcn.nl You can look the Senufo report at this source. It is on the online Dutch museum database. Look under collection and typ in "senufo", look it up at "voorwerpen" just beneath "senufo". You will recognise te statue on the second page. Age estimate early 20c./ late 19th. Height 16,6cm.Click image below to see larger images of the Senufo statue (open in a new window) price: 1,300 € Senufo-statue-Nijmegen-museum information request of availability ADD TO CART (click to email)
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and Death in a Senufo Village (Traditional arts of Africa)
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