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THBEarly 20th C. Senufo Wood Tefalipitya Staff w/ Woman
Lot 273
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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- Lot Description
West Africa, Ivory Coast, Senufo, ca. early 20th century CE. A beautiful hand-carved wooden ceremonial cultivators’ staff for crop fertility, known as a tefalipitya, with a seated female finial on the top. The staff is a lengthy rod with faint traces of stippled motifs along the lower half in black pigments. The top is capped with a wooden figure of a nude woman seated on a short stool with her hands at her sides. Incised lines around her waist, back, breast, and face, represent ritualistic scarification or tattoos. She exhibits prominent, conical breasts, an elongated face, and hair crest. This staff represents the ideal features of a fertile woman and wife in Senufo culture. This piece is also known as a "champion-cultivator" staff and is given as a prize to the best farmer. Outside of sowing season, the staffs are held as sacred objects, their lineages of past champions carefully recorded. Size: 47.5" L x 2.5" W (120.6 cm x 6.4 cm)
Another example of a tefalipitya hammered for $11,875 at Christie's, New York "African and Oceanic Art: The Robert and Jean Shoenberg Collection" auction (sale 2257, November 14, 2008, lot 27)
Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-Zemanek Munster Auction House, Wurzburg, Germany; ex-Fernandez Leventhal Gallery, New York, USA; ex-private American collection
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#165017Stable pressure fissures vertically on figure finial and chips to high pointed areas on figure. Lustrous patina. Stable hairline fissures on rod and faint traces of painted pigments. Otherwise intact and very nice.Condition
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