Carved wooden statue of a female in standing position with pronounced steatopygia

Made:: 1871-1910 in South Africa

Carved wooden statue of a female in standing position with
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Carved wooden statue of a female in standing position with pronounced steatopygia, exaggerated in every way, Hottentot or Bushmen, maker, South Africa, 1871-1910

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A656677

Materials:: wood

Measurements:: height 850 mm
length 185 mm
width 218 mm
base: diameter 235 mm

type:: statues

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Carved wooden statue of a female in standing position with pronounced steatopygia

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