SENUFO GOURDS ARCHIVES, Ivory Coast

The Senufo gourds below have been sold and are left here for reference and educational purposes.

 SENUFO
Gourd 1
17.5" high x 15.5" wide
SOLD

  SENUFO
Gourd 2
15.5" high x 13.5" wide
SOLD

 

 SENUFO
Gourd 3
16" high x 13" wide
SOLD

 SENUFO
Gourd 4
15" high x 13.5" wide
N/A*

  SENUFO
Gourd 5
15" high x 11.5" wide
SOLD

  SENUFO
Gourd 6
16.5" high x 16" wide
SOLD

 

SENUFO
Gourd 7
16" high x 13.5" wide
SOLD

  SENUFO
Gourd 8
14" high x 12" wide
SOLD

  SENUFO
Gourd 9
17" high x 16" wide
SOLD

 SENUFO
Gourd 10
16.5" high x 13.5" wide
SOLD

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Gourd 11
11" high x 9.5" wide
SOLD

  SENUFO
Gourd 12
15.5" high x 13.5" wide
SOLD

Photographs © Tim Hamill

SENUFO GOURDS, Ivory Coast

These wonderfully crafted vessels are made from large, smooth gourds, with bent wood/bark extensions down from the lids and up from the main bodies. Both pieces are intricately stitched with a reed-like fiber through carefully bored holes and cracks in the gourd are repaired by the same technique.

These have been vetted as authentic.  *Senufo Gourd 4 was selected by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and was donated to their permanent collection.

 

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