Anthropo-zoomorphic heddle pulley "kwora-ti-kotolo" · Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo · ID: 3050981
Dorothy Brill Robbins Collection, New York, USA
American Private Collection, Connecticut
Arte Primitivo, New York, 15 October 2021, lot 874 (in a group of two, as Kulango)
Dorothy Brill Robbins was the sister of the well-known Africa collector William Brill (1918-2003). She bought her first Africa object from Anuschka Menist in the early 1980s.
Description
wood, old collection label “#353”, base
A comparable heddle pulley in the shape of a standing female figure with a hornbill head was collected in 1965 by Karl-Heinz Krieg in Morando, south of Boundiali, Ivory Coast (“Weber und Schnitzer in Westafrika”, 1987, p. 21, right). Another specimen published by Robbins & Nooter, 1989, p. 188, fig. 389 (AHDRC 0070285).
The object Anthropo-zoomorphic heddle pulley “kwora-ti-kotolo” with the object ID 3050981 was last part of the auction Auction 103 at November 16, 2024 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 172 achieved a sales price of EUR 2,500.
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Comparing literature
Gerhards, Eva (Hg.), Weber und Schnitzer in Westafrika, München 1987, p. 21 (on the right) Robbins, Warren M. & Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections, 1989, p. 188, ill. 389
Publications
AHDRC: 0190208