Senufo Deble Rhythm Pounder
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Culture
group: Senufo
Country: Ivory Coast
Object name: Figure
Object gender: female
Object posture: standing
Medium: Wood
Size: 82 cm
Price : sold
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Wooden female figure carved by the Senufo people of West Africa.
The Senufo of northern Côte d'Ivoire produce a rich
variety of sculptures, mainly associated with the Lo society (known more widely
as the Poro), to which all adult men belong and which maintains the
continuity of religious and historical traditions, especially through the
cult of the ancestors.
Wooden figure carved in the form of a woman by the Senufo people of West
Africa and used as a “rhythm pounder” in certain rituals performed to
promote the fertility of the soil. Initiates of the Poro (or Lo) male secret
society, performing their fertility dance, held the figures by the upper arms
The Poro (or Lo) male secret society held the figures by the upper arms and
pounded them on the ground to keep the rhythm as they performed the fertility
dance. The figures were also placed in the fields during digging contests.
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