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Description: | Old label on back of head reads 'Idol from the Interior of Africa E.26' CULT Mende Sierra Leone West Africa The figure is a standing woman holding pendulous breasts, with a round face with lead mouth, lead eyes and carved stylised hair. She has decorative scarification on various parts of her body, including rows of vertical lines on the back and front and a sun motif at the navel. She wears a semi-elliptical comb in her hair and there are four coils carved around her neck. There are blue, white, black, green and pink patterned beads round her neck and waist, indicating that she has been initiated.
Beads were very significant in African culture, used in many religious and social ceremonies. Sculptures used in marriage and puberty ceremonies were adorned with beads such as these. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | IDOL : : RITUAL : WOMAN : JEN : WEST AFRICA : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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