Carved wooden ancestral figure of male standing in position with hands clutching stomach

Made:
1900-1930 in Cote dIvoire
Carved wooden ancestral figure of male standing in position

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Carved wooden ancestral figure of male standing in position
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Carved wooden ancestral figure of male standing in position with hands clutching stomach, made possibly for tourist trade, Baule, Ivory Coast, 1900-1930

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A160180
Materials:
wood
type:
statues
credit:
Foster