Female ritual or ancestor statuette

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Description

wood, black slightly shiny patina, wrapping with copper wire (upper arm), necklace with miniature glass beads, rising from an elevated base, showing a kind of courtly posture with both hands folded in front of the body, delicate carved facial features, elaborate coiffure, slightly dam., drilled holes around the side parts of the coiffure partly broken, on base

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Comparing literature

Perrois, Louis & Ch. Grand-Dufay, Visions of Africa, Punu, Milan 2008, pl. 51

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