Figural carved staff "tefalapica" · Côte d'Ivoire, Sénoufo · ID: 3031716
Vendu
280 €
Provenance
Peter Loebarth, Hameln, Germany (1993)Vera und Wolfgang Nerlich, Munich, Germany
Description
wood, brown patina, remains of black paint, round staff, carved with a sitting female figure, carrying a bulbous vessel on her head, min. dam., fine cracks, 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.
Littérature comparée
Förster, Till, Die Kunst der Senufo aus Schweizer Sammlungen, Zürich 1988, p. 22, ill. 5