Senufo
Textile
Senufo, 1933-1966
Scroll
Senufo
Textile
Senufo, 1933-1966
Physical Qualities
Cotton, black pigments, 126 x 79 x 0.1 D cm.
Credit Line
Gift of Bernice Barth, Los Angeles
Object Number
2002.603
Strip woven in seven strips with a variety of reptiles, geometric motifs, and figures wearing costumes and masks (one horned mask, one single-snouted mask, one double-snouted mask, and four cloth masks). Numerous circles and smaller creatures (two chameleons and a bird) scattered throughout.
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
Polakoff, Claire, African textiles and dyeing techniques, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982, pp 155-185.
