Carved ancestral figure of woman with elaborate headdress

Carved ancestral figure of woman with elaborate headdress

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Carved ancestral figure of woman with elaborate headdress
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Carved ancestral figure of woman with elaborate headdress, glass bead girdle round waist, Pangwe (fang), Gabon, West Africa, 1880-1907

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A59696
Materials:
wood and glass, bead girdle
type:
statues
credit:
Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)