Editing Senufo people

{{short description|West African ethnic group}}
{{Infobox ethnic group
| group = Senufo
| image =Belle femme senoufo.jpg 
| caption = Senufo people
| pop = c. 3 million (2013);<br/>
0.8 million in Mali
| popplace = Northeastern [[Côte d'Ivoire]], southeastern [[Mali]] and southwestern [[Burkina Faso]], and one subgroup in western [[Ghana]]
| langs = [[Senufo languages]], [[French language|French]]
| rels = Predominantly [[animist]]; some [[Muslim]]
| related = 
}}

The '''Senufo people''', also known as '''Siena''', '''Senefo''', '''Sene''', '''Senoufo''', and '''Syénambélé''', are a [[West Africa]]n ethnolinguistic group. They consist of diverse subgroups living in a region spanning the northern [[Ivory Coast]], the southeastern [[Mali]] and the western [[Burkina Faso]].<ref name="Olson1996p515">{{cite book|author=James Stuart Olson|title=The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MdaAdBC-_S4C&pg=PA515|year=1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-27918-8|page=515}}</ref><ref name="Daddieh2016p427"/><ref name="Imperato2008p266"/> One sub-group, the [[Nafana]], is found in north-western [[Ghana]].<ref name=richter37>{{cite journal | last=Richter | first=Dolores | title=Further considerations of caste in West Africa: The Senufo | journal=Africa | publisher=Cambridge University Press | volume=50 | issue=1 | year=1980 | pages=37–54 | doi=10.2307/1158641 | jstor=1158641 | s2cid=146454269 }}</ref>

The Senufo people are predominantly [[Animism|animists]],<ref name="Imperato2008p266">{{cite book|author1=Pascal James Imperato|author2=Gavin H. Imperato|title=Historical Dictionary of Mali|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zf6xAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA266|year=2008|publisher=Scarecrow|isbn=978-0-8108-6402-3|page=266}}</ref> with some who are Muslims.<ref name="Group2013p184"/> They are regionally famous for their handicrafts, many of which feature their cultural themes and religious beliefs.<ref name=shakarov41/>

==Demographics and languages==
[[File:Senufo languages.png|thumb|left|200px|Approximate distribution of Senufo people in Ivory Coast, Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana]]
In the 1980s, estimates placed the total ethnic group population of Senufo people somewhere between 1.5 and 2.7 million.<ref>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.</ref> A 2013 estimate places the total over 3 million, with majority of them living in Ivory Coast in places such as [[Katiola]], and some 0.8 million in southeastern Mali.<ref name="Daddieh2016p427"/><ref name="Imperato2008p266"/><ref name="Group2013p184">{{cite book|author=Diagram Group|title=Encyclopedia of African Peoples|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ISAuAgAAQBAJ |year=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-96334-7|page=184}}</ref> Their highest population densities are found in the land between the [[Black Volta]] river, [[Bagoe River]] and [[Bani River]].<ref name="Olson1996p515"/>

Their kinship organization is [[Matrilineality|matrilineal]]. Typically, the Senufo people are studied in three large subgroups that have been relatively isolated.<ref name="Shoup2011p253">{{cite book|author=John A. Shoup III|title=Ethnic Groups of Africa and the Middle East: An Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GN5yv3-U6goC&pg=PA253|year=2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-59884-363-7|pages=253–254}}</ref> The northern Senufo are called "Supide or Kenedougou", found near [[Odienne]], and who helped found an important kingdom of West Africa and challenged Muslim missionaries and traders. The southern Senufo are the largest group, numbering over 2 million, who allowed Muslim traders to settle within their communities in the 18th century who actively proselytized, and about 20% of the southern Senufo are Muslims. The third group is very small and isolated from both northern and southern Senufo.<ref name="Olson1996p515"/> Some sociologists such as the French scholar Holas mentions fifteen identifiable sub-groups of Senufo people, with thirty dialects and four [[caste]]s scattered between them.<ref name=richter37/>

The term ''Senufo'' refers to a linguistic group comprising roughly thirty related dialects within the larger [[Senufo languages|Gur]] language family.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web
| url = http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/smpa/hd_smpa.htm
| title = Senufo Sculpture from West Africa: an influential exhibition at The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1963 Essay - Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art
| website = The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
| access-date = 2016-02-29
}}</ref>  It belongs to the Gur-branch of the Niger-Congo language family, and consists of four distinct languages namely [[Palaka language|Palaka]](also spelt [[Kpalaga language|Kpalaga]]), [[Djimini language|Djimini]](also spelt [[Dyimini]]), and [[Senari languages|Senari]] in Côte d'Ivoire and [[Supyire language|Suppire]]( also spelt Supyire) in Mali, as well as [[Karaboro languages|Karaboro]] in [[Burkina Faso]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/topic/Senufo|title=Senufo people|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=2016-03-03}}</ref><ref name=britsenufo/><ref>Language characteristics: [https://www.ethnologue.com/language/sef/19 Sénoufo, Cebaara] in Ivory Coast, [https://www.ethnologue.com/language/myk Sénoufo, Mamara] in Mali, [https://www.ethnologue.com/subgroups/senufo-1 15 sub-languages within Senufo]</ref> Within each group, numerous subdivisions use their own names for the people and language; the name Senufo is of external origin. Palaka separated from the main Senufo stock well before the 14th century ad; at about that time, with the founding of the town of Kong as a Bambara trade-route station, the rest of the population began migrations to the south, west, and north, resulting in the present divisions.The Senufo speaking people range from 800,000 to one million and live in agricultural based communities predominately located in the [[Côte-d'Ivoire|Côte d'Ivoire]], [[West Africa]], [[Africa]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web
| url = https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/sisterwendy/works/dru.html
| title = Sister Wendy's American Collection 
| website = www.pbs.org
| access-date = 2016-02-29
}}</ref>

[[Korhogo]], an ancient town in northern Ivory Coast dating from the 13th century, is linked to the Senufo people. This separation of languages and sub-ethnic groups may be linked to the 14th-century migrations with its founding along with the Bambara trade-route.<ref name=britsenufo>[https://www.britannica.com/topic/Senufo Senufo people], Encyclopædia Britannica</ref>

==History==
[[File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Vrouw bezig met het wannen van rijst TMnr 20012698.jpg|thumb|180px|Senufo people traditionally have lived in circular shaped mud huts, agriculture historically is their main livelihood<ref>{{cite book|author1=Patricia Sheehan|author2=Jacqueline Ong|title=Côte D'Ivoire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2GfaBqNFRBUC&pg=PA65|year=2010|publisher=Marshall Cavendish|isbn=978-0-7614-4854-9|pages=65–66}}</ref>]]
The Senufo people emerged as a group sometime within the 15th or 16th century.<ref name="Shoup2011p253"/> They were a significant part of the 17th to 19th-century [[Kénédougou Kingdom]] (literally "country of the plain") with the capital of [[Sikasso]]. This region saw many wars including the rule of Daoula Ba Traoré, a cruel despot who reigned between 1840 and 1877.<ref name="Daddieh2016p427"/><ref name=imperatolxx/> The Islamisation of the Senufo people began during this historical period of the Kénédougou Kingdom, but it was the kings & chiefs who converted, while the general Senufo population refused.<ref name="Daddieh2016p427"/> Daoula Ba Traoré attempted to convert his kingdom to Islam, destroying many villages within the kingdom such as Guiembe and Nielle in 1875 because they resisted his views.<ref name="Daddieh2016p427">{{cite book|author=Cyril K. Daddieh|title=Historical Dictionary of Côte d'Ivoire (The Ivory Coast)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_VptCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA427|year=2016|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8108-7389-6|pages=426–427}}</ref> The Kénédougou dynastic rulers attacked their neighbors as well, such as the [[Zarma people]] and they in turn counterattacked many times between 1883 and 1898.<ref name="Daddieh2016p427"/>

The pre-colonial wars and violence led to their migration into Burkina Faso in regions that became towns such as Tiembara in [[Kiembara Department]].<ref name="Daddieh2016p427"/> The Kénédougou kingdom and the Traoré dynasty were dissolved in 1898 with the arrival of French colonial rule.<ref name=imperatolxx>{{cite book|author1=Pascal James Imperato|author2=Gavin H. Imperato|title=Historical Dictionary of Mali|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zf6xAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA266|year=2008|publisher=Scarecrow|isbn=978-0-8108-6402-3|pages=lxxviii, 266}}</ref>

===Slavery===
The Senufo people were both victims of and perpetrators of slavery as they victimized other ethnic groups by enslavement.<ref name="Lovejoy2011p170"/> They themselves bought and sold slaves to Muslim merchants, [[Ashanti people|Asante people]] and [[Baoulé people]]. As refugees from other West African ethnic groups escaped wars, states Paul Lovejoy, some of them moved into the Senufo lands, seized their lands and enslaved them.<ref name="Lovejoy2011p170">{{cite book|author=Paul E. Lovejoy|title=Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXVFnHqhLvcC&pg=PA170 |year=2011|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-50277-1|pages=170–171, 57–58}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Martin A. Klein|title=Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-NnSmbqbtfoC&pg=PA117|year=1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-59678-7|pages=117–124}}</ref>

The largest demand for slaves initially came from the markets of [[Sudan]], and for a long time, slave trading was one an important economic activity across the Sahel and West Africa, states [[Martin A. Klein|Martin Klein]]. Sikasso and Bobo-Dioulasso were important sources of slaves captured who were then moved to [[Timbuktu]] and [[Banamba]] on their way to the Sudanese and [[Mauritania]]n slave markets.<ref name="Klein1998p53">{{cite book|author=Martin A. Klein|title=Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-NnSmbqbtfoC&pg=PA53 |year=1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-59678-7|pages=53–58}}</ref>

Those enslaved in Senufo lands worked the land, herds and served within the home. Their owner and his dependents also had the right to have sexual intercourse with female domestic slaves. The children of a female slave inherited her slave status.<ref>{{cite book|author=Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch|editor=Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers and Joseph Calder Miller|title=Women and Slavery: Africa, the Indian Ocean world, and the medieval north Atlantic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jgm69dJt4DcC&pg=PA50 |year=2007|publisher=Ohio University Press|isbn=978-0-8214-1723-2|page=50}}</ref>

===Kong Empire===
{{Main|Kong Empire}}
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==Society and culture==
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| footer = The handicrafts of Senufo people<ref name=shakarov41>{{cite book|author1=Avner Shakarov|author2=Lyubov Senatorova|title=Traditional African Art: An Illustrated Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H83wCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA41 |year=2015|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-2003-9|pages=41–45}}</ref>
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The Senufo are predominantly an agricultural people cultivating corn, millet, yams, and peanut. Senufo villages consist of small mud-brick homes. In the rainy southern communities of Senufo, thatched roofs are common, while flat roofs are prevalent in dry desert-like north. The Senufo is a patriarchal extended family society, where arranged typically cousin marriage and polygyny has been fairly common, however, succession and property inheritance has been [[Matrilineality|matrilineal]].<ref name="Shoup2011p253"/><ref name=britsenufo/>

As agriculturalists, they cultivate a wide variety of crops, including cotton and cash crops for the international market. As musicians, they are world renowned, playing a multitude of instruments from: wind instruments ([[Wind instrument|Aerophones]]), stringed instruments ([[Chordophone|Chordaphones]]) and percussive instruments ([[Membranophone]]s). Senufo communities use a [[caste]] system, each division known as a Katioula.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web
| url = https://africa.uima.uiowa.edu/peoples/show/Senufo
| title = Senufo - Art & Life in Africa - The University of Iowa Museum of Art
| website = africa.uima.uiowa.edu
| access-date = 2016-02-29
}}</ref> In this system the farmers, known as Fo no, and the artisans at the opposite ends of the spectrum. The term artisan encompasses different individual castes within Senufo society including blacksmiths (Kule), carvers (Kpeene), brasscutters (Tyeli), potterers, and leather workers, whose lives revolve around the roles, responsibilities, and structures inhabited by the individual class.<ref name=":2" /> Training to become an artisan takes about seven or eight years; commencing with an apprenticeship where the trainees create objects not associated with the religion of the Senufo, then culminating with an initiation process where they obtain the ability to create ritual object.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web| url = http://creativity.denverartmuseum.org/?lesson-plan=drums-of-africa| title = Creativity Resource for Teachers » Blog Archive » Drums of Africa| website = creativity.denverartmuseum.org| access-date = 2016-02-29}}</ref>

Regionally, the Senufo are famous as musicians and superb carvers of wood sculpture, masks, and figurines.<ref name=britsenufo/> The Senufo people have specialized their art and handicraft work by subgroups, wherein the art is learnt within this group, passed from one generation to the next. The ''Kulubele'' specialize as woodcarvers, the ''Fonombele'' specialize in blacksmith and basketry work, the ''Kpeembele'' specialize in brass casting, the ''Djelebele'' are renowned for leatherwork, the ''Tchedumbele'' are masters of gunsmith work, while ''Numu'' specialize in smithing and weaving.<ref name=richter37/> Outside the artisan subgroups, the Senufo people have hunters, musicians, grave-diggers, diviners, and healers who are called the ''Fejembele''.<ref name=richter37/> Among these various subgroups, the leatherworkers or ''Djelebele'' are the ones who have most adopted Islam, although those who convert retain many of their animist practices.<ref name=richter37/>

Traditionally, the Senufo people have been a socially stratified society, similar to many West African ethnic groups having [[caste]]s.<ref name="Sardan1984p56">{{cite book|author=Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan|title=Les sociétés Songhay-Zarma (Niger-Mali): chefs, guerriers, esclaves, paysans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jwfsBQBCcvMC&pg=PA56|year=1984|publisher=Paris: Karthala|isbn=978-2-86537-106-8|pages=56–57}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Tal Tamari| year= 1991|title= The Development of Caste Systems in West Africa| journal= The Journal of African History| volume= 32| number= 2| pages= 221–250|publisher= Cambridge University Press| jstor= 182616| doi=10.1017/s0021853700025718| s2cid= 162509491}}, '''Quote:''' "[Castes] are found among the Soninke, the various Manding-speaking populations, the Wolof, Tukulor, '''Senufo''', Minianka, Dogon, Songhay, and most Fulani, Moorish and Tuareg populations".</ref> These endogamous divisions are locally called ''Katioula'', and one of the strata in this division includes slaves and descendants of slaves.<ref name="Shoup2011p253"/> According to Dolores Richter, the [[caste systems in Africa]] found among Senufo people features "hierarchical ranking including despised lower castes, occupational specificity, ritual complementarity, endogamy, hereditary membership, residential isolation, and the political superiority of farmers over artisan castes".<ref name=richter37/>

The Senufo people usually fall within four societies in their culture: Poro, Sandogo, Wambele, or Tyekpa. While all the societies fill particular roles in the governance and education of the Senufo people, the [[Poro]] and [[Sandobele|Sandogo]].<ref name=":2" /> Spirituality and divination are divided between these two gender-imperative societies with women falling under the Sando or Sandogo society, and men falling under the Poro society with the exception of men who are members of those of the women because of their mother.<ref name=":4" /> These societies are the two that create the majority of commissioned Seunfo art.<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal|last=Glaze|first=Anita|title=Call and Response: A Senufo Female Caryatid Drum |date=1993|volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=119–198 |doi=10.2307/4108736 |jstor=4108736|journal=Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies}}</ref>

Typically, the Senufo villages are independent of each other, and each has a male secret society called ''Poro'' with elaborate initiation rituals in a patch of forest they consider as sacred.<ref name="Daddieh2016p427"/><ref name=richter37/> The initiation rituals involve masks, figurines, and ritual equipment that the Senufo people carve and have perfected. The secrecy has helped the Senufo people to preserve their culture in the times of wars and political pressure. Senufo wear specially-crafted [[brass]] [[jewelry]], such as those mimicking wildlife.<ref name=shakarov41/> <blockquote>''"The main function of Poro is to guarantee a good relationship between the living world and the ancestors. Nerejao is an ancestress who is recognized as the true head of the Poro society. Divination, which is governed by the Sandogo society, is also an important part of Senufo religion. Although [[Sandobele|Sandogo]] is usually considered a women's society, men who are called to the profession and inherit through the matrilineal line are permitted to become diviners."<ref name=":2" />''</blockquote>

[[File:Figure, Senufo, used during tyekpa society funeral ceremonies - Glenbow Museum - DSC00210.JPG|thumb|Caryatid Figure used during tyekpa society funeral ceremonies along with Ceremonial Drums]]
The ''Sandogo'' are women diviners among the Senufo people. They have their own rituals and secret order.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Farris Thompson|title=African Art in Motion: Icon and Act|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u6A2ppfTB5MC&pg=PA82|year=1974|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-03843-1|page=82}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Rosalind Hackett|author2=Rowland Abiodun|title=Art and Religion in Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yCJ71rRnzhgC|year=1998|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|isbn=978-0-8264-3655-9|pages=122–123}}</ref> In addition, the Senufo people have ''Wambele'' and ''Typka'', who perform sorcery and rituals.<ref name="Shoup2011p253"/>

Within Senufo culture, the female form is held above all others in terms of beauty and aesthetics and caryatid figures are seen with various cultural connotations.<ref name=":5" /> This is tied into the worship of the spirit, "Ancient Mother", or the spirit, "mother", Maleeo, who is revered as the guiding entity by all Poro society initiates and members.<ref name=":5" /><ref>[http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1961.198# image of deity from Cleveland Museum collection now available on line ]</ref> The goddess Maleeo has a partner, the god Kolocolo, who is seen as the identifying deity of the Sandogo, who granted the people marriage and this particular type of lineage to allow communication from humanity and the spirit world.<ref name=":2" /> Caryatid figures are seen as representations of the role of women as spiritual mediators and the Sandogo use them in ceremonies as symbols of this bilateral celestial discourse.<ref name=":5" /> Likewise, in the case of the Poro, there are writings about caryatid figures being used in ceremonies where they are brought out to commemorate advancement in the age-grade cycle,<ref name=":5" /> as well as being used to raise funds by initiates of the society. Calved figures were used in a tyekpa funeral ceremony as dance sculpture, held upon the head of the dancers while the ceremony takes place.<ref name=":5" />

The traditional Senufo religion is a type of [[animism]]. This Senufo belief includes ancestral and nature spirits, who may be contacted. They believe in a Supreme Being, who is viewed in a dual female-male: an Ancient Mother, ''Maleeo'' or ''Katieleo'', and a male Creator God, ''Kolotyolo'' or ''Koulotiolo''.<ref name="Shoup2011p253"/>

===Influence===
The art of Senufo people inspired twentieth-century European artists such as [[Pablo Picasso]] and [[Fernand Léger]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter Read|title=Picasso and Apollinaire: The Persistence of Memory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cuUlDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA29|year=2008|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-24361-3|page=29}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Keith Sawyer|title=Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GlT1AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA190 |year=2006|publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-516164-9|pages=190–192}}</ref><ref name="Goldwater1986p152">{{cite book|author=Robert John Goldwater|title=Primitivism in Modern Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l-Ldmim-CA0C&pg=PA152 |year=1986|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-70490-9|pages=152–154}}</ref> The cubism and masks found in Senufo pieces were a significant influence for Pablo Picasso's African period.<ref>[http://en.rfi.fr/africa/20151206-senufo-african-art-inspired-picasso-comes-france Senufo African art that inspired Picasso comes to France], RFI (2015); [http://www.clevelandart.org/events/exhibitions/senufo-art-history-and-style-west-africa Senufo: Art and Identity in West Africa], Cleveland Museum of Art (2015), Quote: "Some of the most beloved artistic creations of sub-Saharan Africa, masks, figures, and decorative art labeled as Senufo have been the subject of numerous studies by African, American, and European scholars since the 1930s. The interest in sculpture identified as Senufo was largely stimulated by its discovery by the artistic avant-garde in the early twentieth century. Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger were among those to find inspiration in the oeuvre of their West African counterparts."</ref>

The term ''Senufo'' has become a category to art collectors and scholars, a symbolism for the artistic traditions of West Africa, starting with the early twentieth century. Old pieces of Senufo art are found in many leading museums of the world.<ref>[http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/smpa/hd_smpa.htm Senufo Sculpture from West Africa: An Influential Exhibition at The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1963], Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi (2010), Art History Department, Emory University</ref>

Cornélius Yao Azaglo August, a photographer, created a photographical journal of Senufo people from 1955 onward.<ref>{{cite book|author=Cyril K. Daddieh|title=Historical Dictionary of Côte d'Ivoire (The Ivory Coast)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_VptCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA95|year=2016|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8108-7389-6|page=95}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Ceremonial Drum of the Senufo People]]
* [[French colonial empire]]
* [[Islam in Africa]]
* [[Traditional African religion]]
* [[Korhogo cloth|Korhogo Cloth]]

==References==
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===Bibliography===
*Holas, Bohumil (1957) ''Les Sénoufo (y compris les Minianka)'', Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
*Spindel, Carol (1989). ''In the Shadow of the Sacred Grove''. Vintage. {{ISBN|0-679-72214-9}}. {{ISBN|978-0-679-72214-4}}.
*Glaze, Anita J. (1981) ''Art and Death in a Senufo Village''. Bloomington:  Indiana University Press.

==External links==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051105201126/http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Senufo.html The Senufo people] at Art&Life in Africa.
*[http://www.senoufo.net/ Centre Senoufo] Mali.
*[http://www.masabo.com/about_senoufo.html 'About the Senoufo People'], Masabo Culture Company.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090107013749/http://www.kunstpedia.com/articles/117/1/The-Sejen-bird-figures-of-the-Senufo-People-Ivory-Coast/Page1.html The Sejen bird figures of the Senufo People, Ivory Coast]
*[http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/71017/rec/1 For spirits and kings: African art from the Paul and Ruth Tishman collection], an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on the Senufo people

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