Zemanek-Münster

Figural carved staff "tefalapica" ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo · ID: 3036559

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Provenance
Manfred Magin, Weinheim, Germany
Helmut Zake, Heidelberg, Germany
Size
H: 120 cm
H: 47.2 inch

Description

wood, partly shiny brown patina, remains of pigments, round staff, carved with a seated female figure with mask face on the back, iron pike, min. dam., cracks, traces of abrasion, small missing parts, base;
“tefalapica” means “the girl of the man working with the hoe” and presents the trophy money in a kind of hoeing competition. In september and october the young men of the Senufo have to cultivate the new yams fields, an exhausting field work, organized as a kind of competition.


The object Figural carved staff “tefalapica” with the object ID 3036559 was last part of the auction 76th tribal art auction at March 22, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 213.

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