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Description: | The long slender body shows a female torso surrounded at the base by animal fur and a set of blue and white beads. The beads appear to have some form of encrustation around them, as does the base of the carving near the animal skin. The beads around the neck are blue in colour and attached to what appears to be raffia. The face has a serene appearance with a stylised coiffure evident at the back of the head. The wood is dark in colour and the face shows evidence of ritual application of palm oil. There is a cavity in the crown, where medicine' was probably placed to increase the potency of the figure and it would have been used to surmount a fetish gourd. Description Source: Helen Coleman | Subjects: | female sculpture in the round human figurine female figure figurine | Source: | Vads | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=408... | Go to resource |
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