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Senufo (and neighboring population) - pending

These small pendants come mainly from the Senufo bronze, known people who inhabit the area between the Ivory Coast, Mali and Burkina Faso, but also - as was only recently discovered - many small ethnic groups of the Southwest Burkina Faso (Turka, Guin, and Tusyan Karaboro), with some relatives of the Senufo themselves (such as Karaboro) and other log furnace.

Small in size, the five examples that I present on this occasion, ranging from 2.5 cm to less than 6 cm, these objects were hung around his neck, arm or waist with a leather string through the arms and torso of the figure represented and were worn mostly by women and children for protection. The figures shown are the spirits of the bush , genes the forest to be exorcised and / or whose sympathies attattivarsi.

The first two from the top, superb quality, from the collection of William Kohler and American have gone at auction at Christie's in New York November 20, 1997.

The third, forms very "relaxed" and made smooth by long years of use, come from the collection Endicott, too, as all previous ones, is produced by Senufo and was purchased by me from the gallery of Craig De Lora.

The next two, very small and certainly for children, are very old, probably of the 19th century and these are from the gallery De Lora.

What should come next instead of ethnicity Tusyan and was acquired by the collector and expert on German Wilfried Glar.

The last of the series is, perhaps, Guin and I got it from German collector and expert Klaus-Jochen Kruger.

Bibliography:

addition to texts on bronze objects already reported this case in addition

1) glänzend wie Gold

Till Forster - Museum fur Wolkerkunde, Berlin, 1987

2) Die Kunst der Senufo

Till Forster - Museum Rietberg, Zurich, 1988

3) Soothsayer Bronzes of the Senufo

Eric de Kolb - Gallery of Hautbarr, New York, 1968