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Carved wooden statue showing a woman lying on her back with elephants

Made:: 1890-1929

Carved wooden statue showing a prostrate female in very

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Carved wooden statue showing a woman lying on her back, with a small elephant standing on her thighs and chest inserting its trunk into her mouth, and a larger one pushing its trunk between her legs, erotic, Congolese, 1890-1929

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A657915

Materials:: ebony

type:: statues

credit:: Walschot

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