SENOUFO, Northern Côte d'Ivoire. Wood, dark brown... Lot 286

SENOUFO, Northern Côte d'Ivoire. Wood, dark brown patina with red reflections, superb patina of use. Loom pulley caliper surmounted by a hornbill head with a long beak. The suspension hole in the neck shows a deep wear of use, beautiful engraved decoration, the spool is missing. This object of Sénoufo weaver was intended to hang on the level of the pulley the lices of the loom of horizontal type. Beginning of the XXth century. Height : 16,5 cm. Width : 7,5 cm. Provenance : -Private collection, Carantec. -Provenance Jean-Michel Huguenin, Galerie Majestic, Paris.