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
- Object Number:
- A658233
- type:
- statues religion (tribal), representation, deities, female, religion (tribal), representation, statues
- credit:
- Church Missionary Society
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