Fourou, Mali [location associated with drawing] Édouard Riou “A burial among the Sièné-re,” probably Fourou, Mali, circa 1892 (Binger 1892: 223) Engraving after a drawing by Édouard Riou [Senufo Unbound, 70, Figure 22] [mapsmarker marker=”28″] .pf-button.pf-button-excerpt { display: none; }
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Zéguédou, Mali [reported location of photograph] Renée Colin-Noguès “Gwomba, dance of agrarian cults, Zéguédougou [Zéguédou],” Mali, 1952-54 (Colin-Noguès 2006, 56) Photograph [Senufo Unbound, 272, Figure 71] [mapsmarker marker=”27″] .pf-button.pf-button-excerpt { display: none; }
Door_NMAfA_2005-6-6
vicinity of Boundiali, Côte d’Ivoire [location associated with attributed artist] Attributed by Anita J. Glaze to workshop of Yaagalo Koné (vicinity of Boundiali, Côte d’Ivoire) Door Wood H. 149.5 cm National Museum of African Art, Gift of Walt Disney World Co., a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company, 2005-6-6 Reported provenance: Jean Verheyleweghen, Brussels, before […]
Photograph_Glaze_Gbon_Fodombele_Dikodougou_1970
Dikodougou region, Côte d’Ivoire [reported location of photograph] Anita J. Glaze “Gbon helmet masquerade of the Fodombele (farmers) poro, during the final rites of the commemorative funeral,” Dikodougou region, Côte d’Ivoire, 1970 (Glaze 1986, 30-31, fig. 1) Photograph [Senufo Unbound, 181, Figure 45] [mapsmarker marker=”25″] .pf-button.pf-button-excerpt { display: none; }
Photograph_Glaze_staff_Soro_Kufulo_1970
Poundya, Côte d’Ivoire [location associated with attributed artist] Anita J. Glaze “Female ‘champion-cultivator’ staff carved by Zana Soro of Poundia [Poundya], presented during the hoeing contest … Kufulo subgroup, Kurufu dialect,” Côte d’Ivoire, 1970 (Lamp 2004, 68-69) Photograph [Senufo Unbound, 159, Figure 41] [mapsmarker marker=”24″] .pf-button.pf-button-excerpt { display: none; }
Photograph_Foerster_poro_initiates_Tyelikaha_1986
Tyelikaha [Tiéliga], Côte d’Ivoire [reported location of photograph] Till Förster Poro initiates carry an elder’s corpse and tap sculptures on the ground to clear a path for the deceased, Tyelikaha [Tiéliga], Côte d’Ivoire, 1986 Photograph [Senufo Unbound, 135, Figure 38] [mapsmarker marker=”23″] .pf-button.pf-button-excerpt { display: none; }
Photograph_Clamens_Convers_in_grove_Lataha_c1950
Lataha, Côte d’Ivoire [reported location of photograph] Gabriel Clamens Michel Convers in a location he identifies as a poro grove at Lataha, Côte d’Ivoire, circa 1950 Photograph Archives of A. R. Arthur, Belgium [Senufo Unbound, 109, Figure 28] [mapsmarker marker=”21″] .pf-button.pf-button-excerpt { display: none; }
Review of ‘Senufo: Art and Identity in West Africa’ at the Cleveland Museum of Art
By Lee Rosenbaum | The Wall Street Journal | 25 March 2015
“With their one-two punch of physical beauty and formal power, the carved wooden figures, helmets and masks energizing the Cleveland Museum of Art’s ‘Senufo: Art and Identity in West Africa’ … will knock you out, even though you won’t know exactly what hit you…”
Cleveland Museum of Art corrects a case of mistaken cultural identity in African ‘Senufo’ exhibition
By Steven Litt | The Cleveland Plain Dealer | 3 March 2015
“It’s unusual to see a major art museum exhibition whose big premise is, Oops, we goofed…”
Photograph_Silverman_Do_masquerader_Sorobango_1987
Sorobango, Côte d’Ivoire [reported location of photograph] Raymond A. Silverman “Performance of a Do masquerader wearing a female mask known locally as ciemve or domuso, in the town of Sorobango, December 20, 1987.” Photograph [mapsmarker marker=”11″] .pf-button.pf-button-excerpt { display: none; }
Photograph_Darbois_dancer_face_mask_Lataha_1954
Lataha, Côte d’Ivoire [reported location of photograph] Dominique Darbois Photograph from which Robert Goldwater published a cut-out as “Dancer with face mask” in Senufo Sculpture from West Africa (1964: 30, cat. 21), 1954 Photograph [Senufo Unbound, 98, Figure 27] [mapsmarker marker=”12″] .pf-button.pf-button-excerpt { display: none; }
Face_mask_NOMA_95.63
Lataha, Côte d’Ivoire [location associated with photograph of object] Unidentified artist Face mask Wood 35.6 cm New Orleans Museum of Art, museum purchase with funds from an anonymous donor, 95.63 Reported provenance: Photographed by Dominique Darbois, Lataha, Côte d’Ivoire, 1954; Entwistle, London / Paris, 1995 [Senufo Unbound, 98, Plate 64] [mapsmarker marker=”13″] .pf-button.pf-button-excerpt { display: […]