Woman’s Statue

This statue of large fallen breasts and bulging and pointed belly represents the senufo woman. When it is traditional Africa, women are always referred to as mothers, who are the main attribute of women. Woman's destiny is to be a mother. A married woman who is barren is despised and often forced to leave the village. Senufus women, like the many other African cultures, especially in West Africa, in addition to caring for the education of children, must also take care of the home. She is the one who prepares the meals, who in the rain prepares and takes the food to the growers of the fields, but she also handles the hoe, sows and plucks the herbs. It makes the soap necessary for cleaning and shea butter necessary for feeding. He goes to the woods to get the firewood that he'll wear on his head. He will do pottery work, dye the cloths to make the clothes, spin the cotton and do basketwork, collect the fruit from the trees and go to sell to the market. And as the wise humanist Amadou Hampâté Bâh says, it is the backbone of the family and in many cases the transmitter of inheritance.

This woman has a chameleon on her head. Chameleon is for the Senufo the symbol of pore and wisdom and know-how to adapt to circumstances. The chameleon was according to B. Waves the first living creature to come out of the mud and step on the ground, which is why it has that wobbly, slow and cautious way of walking. Distrusted or cautious, he reminds the snuphs of the chaotic mud of the primordial universe.