Upper part of a staff "tefalapica" ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo · ID: 3034761

Description

wood, black, slightly shiny patina, in shape of a sitting female figure, a small animal horn around the hips, min. dam., small missing parts, slight traces of abrasion;
“tefalapica” means “the girl of the man working with the hoe” and presents the trophy money in a kind of hoeing competition. In September and October the young men of the Senufo have to cultivate the new yams fields, an exhausting field work, organized as a kind of competition.

The object Upper part of a staff “tefalapica” with the object ID 3034761 was last part of the auction 73rd tribal art auction at May 25, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 199 achieved a sales price of EUR 2,000.

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Comparing literature

Förster, Till, Die Kunst der Senufo aus Schweizer Sammlungen, Zürich 1988, p. 22, ill. 5