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Description : Sherbro or related peoples, Guinea, H: 7Classically rendered with aggressive features, the face with barred teeth, arresting eyes and a small beard. A hole atop the head for ritual material - once part of a monumental figure.Comments: In present day Sierra Leone and Guinea, the discovery of stone heads and figures, usually executed in steatite, is considered auspicious. These stone images are believed to have been made several centuries ago by the Sapi, Kissi, and Sherbro/Bullom, many of whom are ancestors of present day peoples in the area. The fact that many of the features of these images relate stylistically to ivory objects commissioned for the trade to Europe almost four hundred years ago, helps to place the objects in time and space. This example, from Guinea, is large and impressive and would have been part of a monumental figure of which only a handful are known.
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