Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic head ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Guro · ID: 3039464

Description

wood, encrusted blackish brown patina, A-shaped corpus, complete with crossbar and bobbin (nut), crowned with a girl’s head, a motif much favoured by this ethnic group, thin elongated face with bow-shaped projecting coiffure, drilled hole, slightly dam. (nose, mouth), acrylic base;
as with the Senufo the Guro’s heddle pulleys do not have any ritual or magic meaning but are in fact made as “l’art pour l’art” objects whose only purpose is to provide aesthetic pleasure.

The object Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic head with the object ID 3039464 was last part of the auction 81st Tribal Art Auction at October 31, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 241.

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