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Wednesday 14 October 2020, 05:30 PM • Milan

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Senufo, Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso

Estimate

€ 1.200 - 1.600

Sold

€ 1.599

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Wood with a black coating
H 15 cm
Pulley for weaving.
It represents a rhinoceros hornbill (Calao in the Senufo language), a typeof bird the same size as a turkey with a thickhorn on its head. It is an animal frequently mentioned in Senufomythology and it is often sculpted on their ritual masks.

Provenance

- Former private collection (Lugano);