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This female ancestral figure sits with legs flat and crossed, her left hand on her left knee, and right hand holding a standing child who has its head buried in her breast with one foot against her body. Her eyes are painted black on white and her lips are coloured red. Her hair is wound inside a headband with a crest to the front and a descending tab at the rear. She has extended earlobes with three wire rings in the right and one in the left. She is wearing a jacket with short sleeves, a necklace with V front, and bracelets coloured white.

Oriental Museum Collection, Durham University

Durham

Title

Ancestral Figure

Date

19th C

Medium

hardwood

Measurements

H 12.9 x W 6.2 x D 4.7 cm

Accession number

DUROM.1978.40

Work type

Sculpture

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Oriental Museum Collection, Durham University

Elvet Hill, Durham, County Durham DH1 3TH England

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