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Description: | Child god fashioned when alive,then burried with child.
One of three figures of gods, painted wood and used as children's protectors. Made by cleaving a square-sectioned block of wood diagonally. The back of the image is plain rough wood, the cut, while the front is roughly carved to represent an anthropomorphic figure and is painted in various colours. The head is surmounted by small strips of wood. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | protective charms wood dolls paint Health and Healing | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-53503 | Go to resource |
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