Extrémité d´une canne "sejen"

Côte d'Ivoire, Sénoufo

Provenance	Taille	Prix d’appel / Prix d'Estimation
Helga Redlich, Gelsenkirchen, Germany Lempertz, Cologne, 26 April 2003, lot 63	L: 49 cm	Vendu

wood, rep. (wing)

"Sejen" means "the one who follows". The bird sculptures were affixed on top of long staffs and and were carried at the end of the procession during hoeing competitions in the yams fields. The task of the "sejen" was to watch over the young lads.

Koloß, Hans-Joachim, Die Kunst der Senufo, Berlin 1990, p. 44 ff.

YALE: 0048042

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