Female dance figure ·  Tanzanie, Sukuma · ID: 3035132

Description

wood, reddish brown patina, blackish paint, head and right arm carved separately, fixed by nails, originally separate worked breasts attached (traces of nails and a lighter patina in correspondent place), dam., missing parts (both foot-tips, left arm), missing parts which could be of natural origin (knag) or insect caused damage, strong abrasion, crack, on plate;
used at initiation rites, which surely were associated with fertility, whereupon the accentuation of the female genitals and the bulging belly refer to.

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