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Descripción : 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 All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #165017
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