Carved wooden statue highly abstract treatment of female form

Made:: 1890-1930 in Nigeria

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Carved wooden statue highly abstract treatment of female form
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Carved wooden statue highly abstract treatment of female form, high conical headdress, represents "Oma" an ordinary household god, supposed to prevent sickness, Isoko tribe, Southern Nigeria, 1890-1930

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A658233

Materials:: wood

type:: statues

credit:: Church Missionary Society

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