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	ETHNOGRAPHICA - FINE AFRICAN ART & ORIENTAL CARPETS
		Senufo theology is based on Koulotiolo, a powerful god, and Katieleo, a goddess mother, who through the rituals of the Poro society, regenerates the world.
		In the central Senufo area they are left standing in the middle of the ceremonial ground, while in the southern Senufo area, they are carried and then pounded on the ground, providing rhythm for the dancers.
		Senufo metalworkers produced refined jewelry and ornaments, usually in copper, such as finger rings and foot rings adorned with bovine heads or chameleons, symbolizing their genesis, and small figurative masks and amulets with apotropaic purposes.
	www.ethnographica.com /african_art/senufo_peoples_gallery.htm (687 words)

	Senufo People
		All Senufo art is made by specialized artisans, which may diminish regional stylistic differences.
		The Senufo are made up of a number of diverse subgroups who migrated into their current location from the north during the 15th and 16th centuries.
		Senufo agriculture is typical of the region, including millet, sorghum, maize, rice, and yams.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/people/Senufo.html (455 words)

	senufo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A woman’s association, the sandogo, in charge of divination, is responsible for contact with the bush spirit who might be bothered by the activities of the hunt, farming, or of artisans.
		The attitude shown toward them by other Senufo is a mixture of fear and respect, owing to their privileged relationship with the natural forces that they are capable of channeling in a sculpture.
		Among the Naffara group of the Senufo, masks of similar form but with an interior cavity too small for a human head are carried on the top corner of a rectangular, tent like costume called kagba.
	www.zyama.com /senufo/pics..htm (589 words)

	African art. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The art of the Guro of Côte d’Ivoire consists almost entirely of human masks and of loom pulleys.
		Senufo masks represent human features with geometric projections and legs jutting out from each side of the face.
		The Ashanti kingdom of Ghana employed (18th and 19th cent.) a system of brass weights based on a unit that was used to weigh gold dust, the state currency.
	www.bartleby.com /65/af/Africana.html (1284 words)

	Senufo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Senufo (the francophone spelling Senoufo is commonly used) are an ethnolinguistic group comprised of diverse subgroups living in an area spanning from southern Mali and the extreme western corner of Burkina Faso to Katiola in Côte d'Ivoire.
		Korhogo, an ancient town in northern Côte d'Ivoire dating from the 13th century, is the capital of the Senufo people.
		The Senufo are predominantly an agricultural people cultivating millet, yams, peanut, and rice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Senoufo (173 words)

	IK Monitor Articles (6-2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		While the Senufo claimed only three soil types, they pointed out variations within plots of the same soil type; however, these were only described during interviews in their fields.
		More individual interviews were held with the Senufo, which was due in part to the fact that the agricultural practices of the Senufo were more varied.
		Senufo competence in, and esteem for, agriculture is transferred not only through copying the agricultural practices of parents and relatives, but also through group activities; thus participants in poro classes might perform farm tasks for respected elders.
	www.nuffic.nl /ciran/ikdm/6-2/birming.html (2706 words)

	Maternity Figure [Senufo peoples; Côte d'Ivoire] (1981.397) \| Object Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Senufo society is patriarchal; inheritance, however, is traced through the matrilineal line.
		Consequently, the primacy placed on women and their essential maternal role is often reflected in Senufo artistic traditions like this sculpture.
		Senufo life revolves around the Sandogo society and its counterpart, the all-male Poro society.
	www.metmuseum.org /TOAH/ho/10/sfw/hod_1981.397.htm (410 words)

	Senufo Kpelie - RAND AFRICAN ART
		Scarification marks add to presentation of what is considered beautiful to the Senufo.
		Senufo kpelie masks of such remarkable refinement as the offered lot are rare.
		The Senufo produce a rich variety of sculptures, mainly associated with the poro society.
	www.randafricanart.com /Senufo_Kpelie.html (1474 words)

	Senufo Art, Ivory Coast
		A symbol of fertility and the original ancestor cult, the hornbill was the mythological founder of the Senufo people.
		Senufo stools, carved from single blocks of wood are wonderfully simple sculptural forms.
		Senufo beds, carved from single blocks of hardwood, are wonderfully simple, elegant forms, with raised "pillows" and four massive legs that taper downward.
	www.hamillgallery.com /SENUFO/SenufoArt.html (481 words)

	Senufo Tribe
		Types of Art:All Senufo art is made by specialized artisans, which may diminish regional stylistic differences.
		History:The Senufo are made up of a number of diverse subgroups who migrated into their current location from the north during the 15th and 16th centuries.
		Religion:There are a number of revered ancestor and bush spirits among the Senufo.
	www.gateway-africa.com /tribe/senufo_tribe.html (460 words)

	Senufo masks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Senufo inhabit the wet and fertile prairies of Ivory Coast, Burkina Fasso and Mali.
		The Senufo are superstitious, and they make use of the "wabelé" very much.
		In this second use, the mask is just a tool to be used in determinate moments, and not an instrument to attract or communicate with the beyond, as it is in most of the African masks.
	www.africaclub.com /senufoi.htm (416 words)

	The Jembetat Gallery - The Gallery - The senufo Tribe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Senufo, about 1 million in number, live in four countries: the northern Ivory Coast, Ghana, Burkina Faso, and the extreme south of Mali.
		A single language was established, Sy6nia, which was the origin of the name Senufo that the French colonizers gave them.
		From the sixteenth century on, some groups separated and emigrated to the south, which was rich in fertile land.
	www.jembetat.com /tribe.cfm?tribe=senufo (212 words)

	ZOOM . activities . do . Senufo Mud Painting \| PBS Kids
		The mud patterns help the Senufo blend in with their surroundings, and the designs are usually made to look like animals found in their environment.
		The Senufo use animals in their designs, like crocodiles, turtles, monkeys, lizards and other animals commonly found in West Africa.
		The Senufo use a dye made from boiled leaves to draw their designs.
	pbskids.org /zoom/activities/do/senufomudpainting.html (393 words)

	Senufo Painting (Lesson Plan)
		Senufo paintings are stylized drawings of masked figures and animals done by the men who live in Fakaha.
		First, the Senufo draw the figures freehand with a yellowish-green dye made from the leaves of the falma bush.
		This paint is made from a sludgy mud dug from the roots of trees in swampy areas.
	www.teachervision.fen.com /page/3842.html (528 words)

	North Carolina Museum of Art
		Among the Senufo, animal-shaped helmet masks are worn by members of the predominately male Poro society in funerary rituals for distinguished male and female elders.
		This mask combines the open jaws of a hyena (through which the wearer looks out), horns of an antelope, and tusks of a boar to express the threatening nature of a male forest spirit and to frighten away enemy forces directed against the Poro.
		Between the horns are two animals: a chameleon, symbol of mystical transformation; and a bird, probably a hornbill.
	www.ncartmuseum.org /collections/highlights/african/helmet_lrg.shtml (96 words)

	Senufo African Tribal Carvings
		The Senufo are a people who live along the northernmost border of the Ivory Coast in western, sub-saharan Africa.
		While the tribe as a whole earns its livelihood from basic agriculture and cattle raising, the Senufo have special castes for artists and artisans giving them a place of honor in their culture.
		From modern dance masks to older ceremonial drummer figures, the entire array of Senufo art is valued by collectors.
	www.biddingtons.com /content/pedigreesenufo.html (302 words)

	African art - Senufo (Senufu, Senoufo) ethnic group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The population of Senufo is believed to be between 800 000 and 1 million people.
		The major part of activities of Senufo is related to farming and agriculture.
		In Senufo society the right to be an artisan, such as woodcarvers, is acquired by the right of birth.
	www.namibweb.com /senufoinfo.htm (135 words)

	GPD for the PDA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		However, this poro or male secret society is a cultural tradition of the Senufo peoples, which prepare men for leadership in the village communities.
		Senufo artisans are well known for their fascinating carvings.
		The Senufos live in tight knit communities, resulting in the practice of collective farming and eating as a group.
	www.global-prayer-digest.org /pda/daily/2003-5-19.html (349 words)

	Senufo Ancestral Figures
		Among the Senufo, pairs of figures representing the ancestral couple are the procession of the singzanga, "the sacred precincts of the Poro society" (Glaze 1981 in Sieber and Walker p.
		In the matrilineal society of the Senufo, the role of the female is considerable, thus statues of ancestral pairs often have a female larger than the male.
		The secret names of the Senufo primordial couple-- the pair of original ancestors-- are "ones who give birth" or "ones who bear offspring".
	www.princetonol.com /groups/iad/lessons/middle/senances.htm (547 words)

	Sister Wendy's American Collection \| Selected Works \| Ceremonial Drum
		The Senufo people number between 800,000 and one million and live in small villages throughout Mali and Ivory Coast.
		Although all Senufo artisans are male, and villages are ruled by male elders, inheritance -- including the right to be an artisan -- is determined through the mother's lineage.
		Though Senufo art is created primarily for ritual use, its aesthetic has been appreciated far beyond the West African villages where it originated.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/sisterwendy/works/dru.html (374 words)

	Senufo Masks
		Instead of the chi wara of the Bamana, the Senufo have a ritual using long carved poles, the deble, formed with elongated male or female figures.
		The large groups Senufo people (of which there are several sub-groups) dwell in the northern region of Cote d’Ivoire on into Mali and Burkina Faso.
		On either side of the temples are semicircular and rectangular shapes that represent the stylized coiffure worn by Senufo mothers; the center shapes at the side representing ears.
	www.princetonol.com /groups/iad/lessons/middle/senumask.htm (985 words)

	Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		By the end of the lesson, students will be able to create their own Senufo painting on a T-shirt by using acrylic paint.
		By the end of the lesson, students will be able to identify Senufo paintings using their knowledge and understanding of the characteristics/components of these paintings.
		While the tribe as a whole earns its livelihood from basic agriculture and cattle raising, the Senufo have a special appreciation for their artists, giving them a place of honor in their culture.
	www.wku.edu /~jamie.shumate/art.htm (1918 words)

	WOODS MUSEUM IVORY COAST RESEARCH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Whereas the Senufo consider the male god to be a remote being in the sky Katyeleo is the focus of their rites, rituals and religious philosophy.
		She is the force and power through which the events of the creation of the world repeat themselves and become incarnate in the present.
		For the Fodonon, a Senufo group of the Korhogo district, this highly revered principle is also reflected in the important role women play in the divination and initiation societies- a rare phenomenon in West Africa.
	www.nsu.edu /resources/woods/ivcoast.htm (1811 words)

	Masks
		The Senufo people are a matrilineal society found in the Northern Ivory Coast.
		The Kpellie mask is the femal counterpart to Senufo kponyugu mask.
		The kpellie mask is used in conjunction with the kponyugu mask during a funeral ceremony for a prominant male or female lineage member.
	www.people.virginia.edu /~bld4f/African_Art/images_1.htm (619 words)

	Afro-Dit: Ibedji article by David Zemanek
		The art of the Senufo people is quite popular nowadays, and their sculpture and masks are found in many European and American collections.
		There are about 3 million Senufo living in the north of the Ivory Coast and the southern area of Mali.
		There are many aspects in this hoe-competition, and in this article I only want to analyse the function and the art of selection of a few Sejen birds, and to show in this short report how their function has changed.
	www.tribalartforum.org /sejen_bird/sejen.html (972 words)

	Senufo (Senari) Language Page - Handbook of African Language Resources (ASC)(MSU) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The term "Senufo" refers both to a language (Senari) and a branch of Gur (Voltaic) that includes four distinct languages: Palaka, Dymini-Tagwana, Central Senufo (Senari), and Northern Senufo (including the dialects of Suppire and Minianka) (Voegelin and Voegelin 1977).
		Senari, which means "the (Senufo) language," also stands for the language spoken in northern Côte d'Ivoire and a small part of Mali.
		Senufo languages in Côte d'Ivoire use the official orthography developed for all languages in that country.
	www.isp.msu.edu /AfrLang/Senufo_root.html (161 words)

	Leslie Sacks Fine Art - Senufo Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Senufo, who live in the region of the northern Ivory Coast between Korhogo, Ferkessedugu, Bundiali, and Sikasso, and also parts of Mali and Upper Volta, call themselves the Siena.
		They form a secret society of their own which is greatly feared, and see to the manufacture of all cult figures.
		The highly distinctive style of the Senufo varies according to the district and the clan, and in addition has absorbed certain influences from the Bambara and Baule.
	www.lesliesacks.com /gallery/artistPages/senufo/senufobio.htm (121 words)

	Resources on the Senufo
		Senufo Senufo, Shaangan Shangama Shaangan Shangama, Shona Mashona...
		The Senufo number somewhere between 1.5 and 2.7 million[1] and speak the various Senufo languages.
		Garber (1987) estimates the total number of Senufos at some 1.5 million; the Ethnologue (15th edition), based on various population estimates, counts 2.7 million.
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/african/Senufo.html (688 words)

	Sanaa Gallery - Tribal Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Baule are noted for their fine wooden sculpture, particularly for their ritual statuettes representing ghosts or spirits; these, as well as carved ceremonial masks are associated with the ancestor cult.
		The figures and human masks, the latter reported to be portraits used in commemorating the dead, are elegant--well polished, with elaborate hairdressings and scarification.
		The Senufo of northern Ivory Coast produce a rich variety of sculptures, mainly associated with the Lo society (known more widely as the Poro), to which all adult men belong and which maintains the continuity of religious and historical traditions.
	www.sanaagallery.com /tribalinfo.html (2216 words)

	Senufo Kafigeledjo oracle figure - RAND AFRICAN ART
		pursuit of truth ultimately seeks to preserve and uphold Senufo social guidelines concerning descent.
		elites throughout Senufo society in the past, but more recently it has been the sole province of the Kulebele wood carvers, a Senufo artisan subgroup in
		Kafigeledjo is thus a formidable force wielded by Kulebele leaders to distinguish their heritage and preserve the special interests of their constituents.
	www.randafricanart.com /Senufo_Kafigeledjo.html (1734 words)

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