figure
- Museum number
- Af1972,01.2
- Description
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Standing female figure carved in wood, with scarification carved on stomach and lower back, round headdress.
- Dimensions
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Height: 67.50 centimetres
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Width: 18.70 centimetres
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Depth: 13.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Recorded as "Used in healing ceremonies" from Fanima, Mende tribe, Sierra Leone.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Front of both feet missing.
- Acquisition date
- 1972
- Acquisition notes
- Af1972,01.1 to 9 were purchased from Fade Mohamed Kaba, and are objects from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1972,01.2