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Heavily Used Senufo Pulley with Hornbill Finial
Senufo heddle pulley, Cote d’Ivoire. 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. The hornbill family of birds are common across Africa. They feature prominently in Senufo folklore and are frequently depicted in heddle pulleys.
6″
