Ritual Vessel

Banamba culture, Mali, South of Segou, African

About 1250-1550

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Small, stylized flat doll carved from animal bone, with incised and painted details representing a head with "curly" hair and beard in the form of circles with dots in the middle, and a face with two eyes with dots for eyebrows and nose, the body unarticulated.
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