Standing bird figure · Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo · ID: 3036676
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Size
H: 57,5 cm
H: 22.6 inch
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.
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