Senufo
Textile
Senufo, 1933-1966
Scroll
Senufo
Textile
Senufo, 1933-1966
Physical Qualities
Cotton, black pigment, Overall: 159 x 80.5 x 0.1 cm. (62 5/8 x 31 11/16 x 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Bernice Barth, Los Angeles
Object Number
2002.601
Strip woven in seven strips with an upper and lower row of three standing figures each wearing a horned mask surmounted by a chameleon figure, wearing a bulbous costume divided in half vertically, one half solid, the other with a crosshatched or checkerboard pattern (except for one in upper center which is entirely checkerboard). Four of these figures hold a ceremonial instrument up with the right hand. A snake and smaller figure flank the bottom right figure. A central row of birds with large oval bodies and long curving beaks. Circles with quatrefoil motif scattered throughout in the reserves.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2002; Bernice Barth from her husband, Arthur H. Barth; Arthur H. Barth Primitive Art, Beverly Hills, CA; purchased in Europe in the 1960s