Senufo

[ suh-noo-foh ]

noun

, plural Se·nu·fos, (especially collectively) Se·nu·fo

1. a member of a group of Indigenous people of Ivory Coast, Mali, and Burkina Faso, known for their music and art.
2. any of several dialects spoken by the Senufo, belonging to the Gur branch of the Niger-Congo family.

Example Sentences

Adams underscores the importance of this contribution with two artworks in vitrines: a Senufo female fertility figure and a 1955 head of a man by the Black sculptor Elizabeth Catlett that is ominously titled “Target.”

From New York Times

“The Senufo figures are at a very prominent scale, which is very unique, and they’re highly polished like the bumpers of a car.”

From Los Angeles Times

In the exhibition, Mr. Edmonds includes a portrait of a man in a fedora who seems entranced by a Senufo sculpture of a woman.

From New York Times

Overlooking the portraits is a double Senufo mask from the Ivory Coast “that gives thanks to ancestors and remembers those who have gone before,” according to the float sponsors.

From Los Angeles Times

Basquiat became increasingly reclusive, though he still created work for shows, and made plans, in early 1988, to revisit Ivory Coast to go to a Senufo village.

From The Guardian