Standing bird figure

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Description

wood, slightly encrusted brown patina, elongated beak, dam., missing parts through insect caused damage (base, right side), cracks, traces of abrasion, base;
probably representing a hornbill. The “bird” is one of the primal beings in the Senufo cosmology. It clearly has the belly of a pregnant woman, as well as a phallic beak. It is simultaneously female and male.

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Comparing literature

Weinhold, Ulrike,The Eternal Face, Berg en Dal 2000, p. 204 ff. Phillips, Tom (Hg.), Afrika, Die Kunst eines Kontinents, Berlin 1996, p. 457, ill. 5.124

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