Three protective figures "adu horo"

Description

wood, brown patina, a) standing figure with extremely elongated torso and short legs, hands in praying gesture, spherical head with slanting face halves and crowning projection, h: 39 cm; b) rudely carved figure with block-like leg zone, h: 34,5 cm; c) standing female figure with heart-shaped deepened face halves, projection with drilled hole on the head, h: 46,5 cm; each of the figures min. dam., cracks, min. traces of insect caused damage;
“adu horo” figures served to protect from, or to heal illness.