2025年1月28日 · African art - Senufo, Sculpture, Rituals: The Senufo of northern Côte d’Ivoire produce a rich variety of sculptures, mainly associated with Poro, a society guided by a female ancestral spirit known as “the Ancient Mother.” All adult Senufo men belong to Poro, and the society maintains the continuity of religious and historical traditions.

2010年1月1日 · During the twentieth century, outside commentators defined poro (or lô) as a universal age-grade initiation association common to all Senufo communities in West Africa. They also attributed much of the region’s artistic production to the institution.

2010年1月1日 · Art collectors, dealers, connoisseurs, and scholars in Europe and North America began labeling certain sculpture as Senufo in the early twentieth century as they sought ways to classify and understand arts from Africa that increasingly captured their attention.

SENUFO, DRUMS, Ivory Coast Drums are among the most important art forms in Africa, used both as a musical instrument and as a work of sculpture significant in many ceremonial functions, including dance, rituals, story-telling and communication of messages.

2010年1月1日 · Divinatory spirits and sculptures created for them are often referred to as ndebele, madebele, and tugubele (sing.: ndeo, madeo, and tugu) in several Senufo dialects used in northern Côte d’Ivoire, southeastern Mali, and southwestern Burkina Faso.

2024年3月7日 · The Senufo Art Gallery showcases pieces of Senufo origin, two elegant carvings of the human form, man and woman, and a hornbill-adorned heddle, a tool used in weaving. These finely carved wood pieces highlight the beauty of Senufo art in …

Featuring nearly 170 loans from museums and private collections in Europe, Canada, and the United States, Senufo: Art and Identity in West Africa examines the shifting meanings of the term Senufo since the late nineteenth century and investigates assumptions underlying the labeling of art as Senufo. Revealing the shortcomings of labels tied to ...

2018年9月1日 · With nearly 160 works on display, Senufo: Art and Identity in West Africa explored and challenged established definitions of “Senufo,” perhaps one of the most well-known categories of African art. Working through the five galleries, visitors learned of the historical underpinnings of Senufo as an ethnic, linguistic, and stylistic ...

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Mapping Senufo: Art, Evidence, and the Production of Knowledge is an ongoing collaborative digital initiative that focuses on arts commonly labeled as Senufo and located to an area spanning the present-day borders of Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, and Mali in West Africa.