"Statuette Depicting The Deity Katielo - Senufo Culture, Ivory Coast - Circa 1900"
STATUTE depicting the divinity KATIELO seated on a stool, her hands on either side of her protruding umbilicus punctuated with oblique scarification marks, a pendant around her neck. Her face is topped by a headdress sculpted into a stylised hornbill, a symbol of fertility. Senufo culture, Ivory Coast, circa 1900
Copper alloy
H. 13.9 cm, length 2.2 cm
N°219
Reference : 4255
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