Female tomb figure "moira goh-gjih"

Description

heavy light brown wood, well-balanced body, simple facial features with small metal eyes, the surface signed by weathering, cracks, missing part through insect caused damage, the shanks cut, on pedestal;
anthropomorphic statues like the present one were placed on memorials, which were erected together with a cylindrical stone crop about one year after the funeral took place. The figures depict the dead, who could be identified by individual characteristics such as tattoos or scars