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Baule Pot-Top Pulley
Baule pulley capped with a bowl and embellished with recycled metal. Ex collection Thomas McNemar, Lexington, Virginia. McNemar lived outside of Abidjan in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He toured the country collecting, among other things, hundreds of pulleys. Figurative pulleys were then fairly common among the Senufo, Baule, Guro and other ethnic communities where traditional weaving was still practiced. The devices are critical elements in a West African loom, sitting roughly at eye level with the weaver. AHDRC number 0183481.
6″
