Carved wooden ancestral figure
- Made:
- 1890-1930 in Cote dIvoire
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Carved wooden ancestral figure, tall, slim upright female, with pendulous breasts and elaborate scarification, arms clutching the stomach, wearing glass bead necklace and girdle, placed in or near graves, probably Baule, Ivory Coast, 1890-1930
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A114485
- Materials:
- wood and beads, glass
- type:
- statues
- credit:
- Sotheby's
