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Three heddle pulleys and a slingshot ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo · ID: 3033393

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Provenance
Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany
a)+ d) 1978, acquired in Treichville, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
b) + c) 1983, acquired in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Description

light brown wood, dark brown patina, a) simple form, carved with the stylized head of a hornbill, h: 16 cm; b) corpus carved with geometrical ornaments, crowned by a bird’s head, h: 15 cm; c) ornamented corpus, crowned by a stylized buffalo’s head, h: 14 cm; each showing slight traces of abrasion, bobbins missing; d) slingshot surmounted by a human head with long neck, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion, h: 23 cm


The object Three heddle pulleys and a slingshot with the object ID 3033393 was last part of the auction 70th tribal art auction at September 8, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 123.

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