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Seated Female Figure

Mbembe peoples

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This animated seated woman once cradled something that filled the void delimited by her torso, thighs, and arms. Her gesture and attitude suggests that a now-missing child may have originally been at the center of the composition.

Seated Female Figure, Wood, Mbembe peoples

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