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LicenseCarved 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
- Measurements:
-
height 380 mm
length 80 mm
base: width 78 mm
- type:
- statues
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
