Female Pombibele

These sculpturesparticipate especially in funerals of the Pore members who have received the last degree of initiation or. They also participate in the rites dedicated to the worship of ancestors and in the funeral honors of the other members of the Pore along with theand are covered by young initiates. Very stylized figure that responds to the purest aesthetic canons of the senufo. Acquired in Abidjan in the mid sixties of the last century. Very stylized piece. Hands to the Cossacks holding two long braids. On the navel carries the symbol of Koultyolothe old mother of the world, supreme feminine divinity of the Senufus. Koultyolo is only represented by its navel, in the form of a protrusion, from which four stripes radiate in the form of a blade.

Dark patina.