Seated female shrine figure ·  Nigeria, Igbo · ID: 3024321

Description

wood, reddish brown patina, black and green paint, strings of glass beads, slender trunk with accentuated navel, free carved overlength limbs, a long neck supporting a narrow face with accentuated cut facial features and a three-parted coiffure, skin scarification marks on body and face, dam., cracks

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