Woman holding Skull-bowl on her Head

Known as a Nduleri figure, this woman or matriarch has her arms raised high and holds a bowl decorated with several heads, which rests on her head. She is naked, stands frontally on a circular base. Carved from a dense wood, in an archaic manner, the surface weathered, cracked and with evidence of offerings.
Height: 21.9 inches (55.6 cm.)

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