A female Senufo Rhythm Pounder or Déblé, Ivory Coast, standing on a cylindrical base, slender legs leading to pronounced buttocks, a thin slightly curved torso with protruding, conical breasts, rounded shoulders leading to very long arms, with a bracelet around each upper arm and one around each wrist, the hands are bent downwards, the cylindrical neck supports an elongated head with a tiny chin, a protruding mouth with the teeth clenched, a narrow, slightly curved nose leading to fine brows, closed eyes, the head is surmounted by a mohawk-like hairstyle; hard wood, brown patina, signs of age and ritual use. Certificate of origin and provenance. Lit.: Burkhard Gottschalk: Senufo. Massa und die Statuen des Poro, Düsseldorf 2002; Kat. Ausst. Die Kunst der Senufo: Elfenbeinküste. Mit einem Beitrag von Till Förster, Staatliche Museen der Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin, 16.11.1990 - 24.2.1991, Berlin 1990; Die Kunst der Senufo, Museum Rietberg Zürich, aus Schweizer Sammlung, Zürich 1988; Homberger Lorenz: Künstler in Werkstätten der Senufo. In: Afrikanische Meister. Kunst der Elfenbeinküste, Zurüch 2014, p. 151-178; Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi: Senufo unbound. Dynamics of art and identity in West Africa, Cleveland 2015.