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View full screenCarved wooden female figure, with elaborate hair style and top knot hung with carved amulets shapes, glass fragments for eyes, wire earrings and bracelets, wearing apron of red beads, probably used by the female Sande Society: Africa, West Africa, Sierra Leone, possibly Temne people
A.1922.461
Unknown
Sierra Leone, Western Africa
Temne
Mende
Blackened wood; glass fragments for eyes, wire earrings and bracelets, apron of red beads
Patterns of Life (29 Jul 2011)
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