A rare Senufo clay anthropomorphic vessel

the architectural lower portion supporting the torso with protruding navel and one breast framed by long arms to the sides, the right hand articulated beneath the enormous spherical head with a rectilinear face inset with cowrie shell eyes surrounded by three horns (a wasp nest on the right side), with a lid at the crown; '104' on the base; varied beige surface of low-fired clay with evidence of grass matrix.

Stolper Galleries, Robert Stolper and Morton Lipkin, Amsterdam, February 1965

New York, Museum of Primitive Art, Senufo: Sculpture from West Africa, February 20 - May 5, 1963 (for additional venues see bibliography, Goldwater 1964)
Milwaukee, Milwaukee Public Museum, Selections from the William W. Brill Colllection of African Art, May 5 - August 31, 1969 (for additional venues see bibliography, Milwaukee 1969)

Goldwater 1964: 13, figure 6
Milwaukee 1969: 13, figure 14