Weaving roll holder. Senufo, Ivory Coast. H 15.5... Lot 456

Weaving roll holder. Senufo, Ivory Coast. H 15.5 cm. Carved with a monkey's head; brown, matt patina with remnants of white paint in the decorative engravings. Published! Exhibition piece! Exhibited in: Kunst der Ivbeinküste / Art of Ivory Coast , Palais Stutterheim, Kleine Galerie, Erlangen, 2001; Götter Geister Ahnen. Afrikanische Skulpturen in deutschen Privatsammlungen , Museum für Völkerkunde Wien, March 23 - July 24, 1994; Götter Geister Ahnen. Afrikanische Skulpturen in deutschen Privatsammlungen/Gods, Spirits, Ancestors: African Sculptures from Private German Collections , Villa Stuck, Munich, October 28, 1992 - January 10, 1993. illustrated in: K.-F. Schaedler, Die Weberei in Afrika südlich der Sahara (1988), p. 220; hes., Africana (1988), p. 16; hes., Götter Geister Ahnen / Gods Spirits Ancestors. African sculpture from private German collections, exhibition catalog Villa Stuck, Munich (1992) p. 77, no. 46; ders., Lexikon Afrikanische Kunst und Kultur (1994) p. 346; ders., Kunst der Ivbeinküste / Art of Ivory Coast (2001), p.41; ders., Encyclopedia of African Art and Culture (2009) p. 288. intact. Provenance: Ex Samir Borro, Abidjan, acquired in the 1970s; ex Coll. Rainer Linnhoff, Munich.