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Woodwork
Heddle Pulley
Guro artist, (active )
Guro artist
Côte d'Ivoire
6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm)
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Wood
Wood
Guro; made in Côte d'Ivoire
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1900-2000, African, African art, busts, mixed media, textiles, women, woodwork
Woodwork
Hand looms are traditionally used by West African men in weaving narrow-strips of cloth. While the heddle pulley is a crucial functional element of the loom, the elaborately carved figure is not. These decorative figures, which fell out of fashion at the end of the last century, were made beautiful simply for the delight and pleasure of the weaver. The human compulsion to beautify functional objects is explained simply by a Guro artist who said, “We cannot live without such beautiful things.”
[Gallery label text, 2009]
1953.75.1
item
Memorial Art Gallery
3/10/2001
53.75.1SL1
slide
2 x 2
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glossy
3/4 right
8x10
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negative
3/4 right
4x5
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53.75.1DI1
digital image
2 x 2
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53.75.1DI#4
digital image
back
1/22/2008
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53.75.1DI#3
digital image
three-quarter view
1/22/2008
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/53.75.1_A3.jpg
53.75.1DI#2
digital image
Front
1/22/2008
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/53.75.1_A2.jpg
Woodwork
Heddle Pulley
Guro artist, (active )
Guro artist
Côte d'Ivoire
Primary
8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm)
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Wood
Wood
Guro; made in Côte d'Ivoire
0
0
1900-2000, African, African art, busts, textiles, woodwork
Woodwork
Hand looms are traditionally used by West African men in weaving narrow-strips of cloth. While the heddle pulley is a crucial functional element of the loom, the elaborately carved figure is not. These decorative figures, which fell out of fashion at the end of the last century, were made beautiful simply for the delight and pleasure of the weaver. The human compulsion to beautify functional objects is explained simply by a Guro artist who said, “We cannot live without such beautiful things.”
[Gallery label text, 2009]
1953.75.2
item
Memorial Art Gallery
3/10/2001
53.75.2DI#3
digital image
back
1/22/2008
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/53.75.2_A3.jpg
53.75.2DI#2
digital image
Three-quarter
1/22/2008
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/53.75.2_A2.jpg
53.75.2DI#1
digital image
front
1/22/2008
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/53.75.2_A1.jpg