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Hearst Museum object titled Carved head (yenama cult), accession number 11-40755, described as head, Yenama cult; wood, carved and painted; feathers around chin; black and white; face is concave in lower part, protruding nose; long peg at bottom for insertion in cult altar; for insertion in the altar of the Yenama cult; this is one of two common yam cults organized on moity-like division; these heads held in great reverence; for illustration of altar and methods of altar placements see reference

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