Standing bird figure ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo · ID: 3036676

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.

The object Standing bird figure with the object ID 3036676 was last part of the auction 76th tribal art auction at March 22, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 217.

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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