"Loom Pulley Stirrup Animated With An Anthropomorphic Face, Gouro Culture, Zuénoula "
WEAVING LOOM PULLEY BRACKET with ANTHROPOMORPHIC FACEGouro culture, Zuénoula, Ivory Coast
First half of the 20th century
Wood
H: 16.5; W: 5 cm
Oval face with stylized features, forehead decorated with a sawtooth pattern and topped with a shell-shaped cap incised with diagonal lines and finished with a pointed braid.
Old label bearing the handwritten inscription “Zuénoula.”
Text and photos © FCP CORIDON
No. 43 of the exhibition "PULLEYS, these suspended sculptures".
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