"Pulley Stirrup For A Weaving Loom, Featuring Two Masks From The Goli Culture Of Baoulé, Ivory Coast"
WEAVING LOOM BRACKET animated by TWO GOLI MASKSBaoulé culture, Ivory Coast
First half of the 20th century
Wood, iron, and nuts
H: 16.5; W: 7.5 cm
(indigenous restoration)
Single-piece wooden stirrup decorated with a double buffalo mask of Goli – a protective deity and child of Nyamien, the god of the sky, symbolizing social harmony and acting as protector of the village, warding off evil influences.
It bears an old handwritten collection number: 3521.
Text and photos © FCP CORIDON
No. 37 of the exhibition "PULLEYS, these suspended sculptures".
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