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Poro cane carved at the top with a female figure.

Wood with a deep pat…

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Poro cane carved at the top with a female figure. Wood with a deep patina of use. Senufo, northern Ivory Coast, Tingrela region. H. 142 cm. Provenance : - Emmanuel Bordier Collection

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Poro cane carved at the top with a female figure. Wood with a deep patina of use. Senufo, northern Ivory Coast, Tingrela region. H. 142 cm. Provenance : - Emmanuel Bordier Collection

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An insider's cane from the Poro society or an escort's stick, possibly the cane of a chief and historical figure in the person of King Babemba. Smaller in size than the large tefalipitya canes that celebrate the sambali (champion of the cultivators) who will be "rewarded" by a young unmarried woman at the peak of her beauty represented seated at the top of these canes, the Senoufo cane from the Jean Roudillon collection is adorned with a female figure sculpted in a standing position, well poised, like a deblé statue. This is almost certainly an initiate's cane from the Poro society, or an escort's cane whose feminine image evokes the supernatural powers of women, such as those of the sandobele, the witch-women, who perceive hidden dangers and pass by to ward off the spells cast by sorcerers. This magnificent cane with its lacquered patina is in the grand old style, with its large, stylized arms, powerfully arched shoulders and cylindrically sculpted ears, unequivocally reminiscent of the finest Déblé statues from the so-called masters' workshop of Sikasso. In 1964, it was exhibited in three American museums as part of the traveling exhibition Senufo Sculptures from West Africa, organized by Robert Goldwater, director of the Museum of Primitive Art in New York. The provenance of this cane, lent by the Le Corneur Roudillon gallery at the time, links it in the exhibition catalog to King Babemba, a historic figure if ever there was one in Mali, who in 1893 succeeded his brother Tiéba Traoré, fourth king of Kénédougou, who had led the kingdom to its apogee and set up his capital in Sikasso, where he had his palace built to resist the attacks of Samory Touré. King Babemba Traoré committed suicide in 1898 rather than be caught, preferring death to shame, after fighting the colonial army. It must have been Olivier Le Corneur and Jean Roudillon who passed on this provenance to Robert Goldwater, a provenance they had acquired with the object. Real or not, Goldwater, a serious man and art historian, must have considered this provenance to be authentic in order to validate and publish it, even though no other document can really attest to it. In Jean Roudillon's notes: "Africa, Ivory Coast, Senufo Cane of King Babemba of Sikasso Reported by a French officer in 1898. Published fig. 135 in "The Museum of Primitive Art" by Robert Goldwater, New York, 1964. Sénoufo, Ivory Coast Wood, iron, old oxidation, wear, small accident to the tip of the right breast and a native iron restoration to the right arm, very fine old patina. H. 113 cm For statues of the Sikasso masters workshop, see pp. 117-137 in: Senoufo Massa et les statues du Poro, Burkhard Gottschalk, Ed. Verlag U. Gottschalk Düsseldorf. Gottschalk Düsseldorf 2006 Provenance : - Former Galerie Le Corneur Roudillon collection - Jean Roudillon Collection Exhibitions and publication : - Senufo Sculpture from West Africa, Robert Goldwater, Ed. The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1964, p. 90 n° 135 - Senufo Sculpture from West Africa, 1963, traveling exhibition in : - New York, NY The Museum of Primitive Art, February 20 - May 5, 1963 - Chicago, IL, Art Institute of Chicago, July 12 - August 11, 1963 - Baltimore, MD Baltimore Museum of Art, September 17 to October 27, 1963.

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