A Senufo seated female figure

A Senufo seated female figure

Ivory Coast

on a stool with a carved waistband and scarifications to her abdomen and with her hands placed either side, with armbands and scarifications to the back, her head with scarifications to the lower jaw, cheeks and temples, with pierced ears and with a tripartite coiffure, the main crest with a pierced recess either side, with a fibre stand of cowrie shells,

27.8cm high, on a base.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.