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Senufo

Staff Handle

1900-1932

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Senufo

Staff Handle

1900-1932

Physical Qualities Wood, 39 1/4 × 4 5/8 × 4 7/8 in. (99.7 × 11.7 × 12.4 cm.)
Credit Line Bequest of Allen A. Davis
Object Number 2017.126
Seated female figure seated on top of pillar with hourglass and mortar designs. Stylized bird head at top. Ink numbers on right side of bird neck. Raised pyramid detail back of buttocks.
Allen Davis and Taylor Dale, Santa Fe, NM by joint purchase, 1999; Samuel Dubiner Collection by purchase, 1955; Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland.
Japanese book with Teke mask on cover with No. 29 1961 at bottom of cover, illustration #20.

Culture

Senufo

2000–2000

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