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Description: | This woman is evidently aged, which can be read from her hunched posture, protruding vertibre and wrinkled face. She has a large, hooked nose, gaps in her teeth and sunken eyes. Her left ear is missing; her right is thick and square and proportionally very large for her face. She kneels with her head pushed forwards, her hands on her knees. Her chest is bare exposing her small breasts, and she wears a short sarong. The square block of basalt from which the figure was cut is still evident in her posture. The surface is very pitted, and these indentations appear as white marks. Elsewhere the stone is black, brown or reddish from remaining pigment. There are a number of scratches down the figures left arm and shoulder, consistent with the damage to the left ear. Description Source: Lorna Hards | Subjects: | figure sculpture in the round human figurine figurine | Source: | Vads | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=680... | Go to resource |
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