text: [{"text_idx": "#000003", "text": "Nelmasi, born around 1922, was a Numu-carver who lived in Sienra/Sieniana, a village about 10 km south Banfora in Burkina Faso. He blonged to the Gue\u0301 or Gouin, a small sub-group of the Senufo,\nwho live in Burkina Faso. A Numu is, like the Fono or the Koule\u0301, a profession group. They are known to work with dry wood from the \"Triini\" tree only and they carve with hot\nblades. Nelmasi did carved statues, masks and other objects of daily life on demand only, he never held stock. This couple was collected by Karl-Heinz Krieg in 1968 in Sienra."}, {"text_idx": "#000004", "text": "After carving, these statues got treated with flames and then sanded. The surface looks, and smells burned. There are no traces or facettes of carving. Especially the mouths do show burned edges,"}]