"She's completely at ease and staring down any kind of gaze."
Curator Alisa LaGamma on "Figure from a Reliquary Ensemble: Seated Female."
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"The most powerful artistic impression of women"
"She’s completely at ease and staring down any kind of gaze."
Alisa LaGamma
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Alisa LaGamma
Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Curator in Charge, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Curator in Charge, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
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Okak-Fang artist
19th–early 20th century