Seated female figure · Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo · ID: 3046845
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Provenance
Adrian Schlag, Brussels, BelgiumSize
H: 25 cm
H: 9.8 inch
Description
wood, pigments, custom mount
The seated female figure represents a “pitya” - a young unmarried woman at the peak of her physical beauty.
It probably once crowned a staff “tefalipitya” or “daleu” for a “master of agriculture”.“Te-fali-pitya” means “hoe-work-girl”.
The object Seated female figure with the object ID 3046845 was last part of the auction Voyage Tribal Art - Live Online Auction at May 23, 2020 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 144.
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