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Zoomorphic Djimini Heddle Pulley
This zoomorphic example shows years of use and probably lost its original horns through contact with the pulley’s hanging mechanism within the loom. Acquired by Thomas McNemar, who 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. Mounted on a museum-quality base. AHDRC number 0183490.
4.5″
