A Senufo champion cultivator staff tefalipitya Ivory Coast wood with a seated female figure with...

A Senufo champion cultivator staff tefalipitya

Ivory Coast

wood with a seated female figure with a characteristic crested coiffure and pierced ears, with her hands placed on her thighs, her back with chequer scarifications and horizontal lines, sitting on two stools with linear edges with alternate banding, the shaft with incised bands and with a metal tip,

142cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Michel Koenig, Brussels.

Pendarell (Pen) Kent collection.