Senufo
Female Rhythm Pounder (Deble or Poropya)
Senufo, 1900-1932
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Senufo
Female Rhythm Pounder (Deble or Poropya)
Senufo, 1900-1932
Physical Qualities
Wood, 50 x 6 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. (127 x 17.1 x 17.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Bernice Barth, Los Angeles
Object Number
2004.222
Carved female figure, dark brown, standing with legs apart; belt supports loin cloth, hands inside belt; arms bent back at elbows; beveled breasts and squared-off shoulders; long neck supports head with two faces looking in opposite directions, each with a crest at top of head.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2004; Arthur Barth, purchased from Robert Stolper, Los Angeles; c. 1960
Forster, Till, "Smoothing the Way of the Dead: A Senufo Rhythm Pounder," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin, 2005, pp. 55-67.
