Figural carved staff "tefalapica" ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo · ID: 3035478

Description

wood, dark brown patina, crowned with a sitting female figure, min. dam., small missing parts, slight traces of abrasion, rest.;
for a work of the same artist, see Carl Einstein, 1920, p. 66.
„tefalapica“ means „the girl of the man working with the hoe“ and presents the trophy money in a kind of hoeing competition. When the young men of the Senufo have to cultivate the new yams fields, a kind of competition will be organized.

Comparing literature

Einstein, Carl, Negerplastik, München 1920, p. 66