Figure; brown-stained wood; standing anthropomorphic male on partially broken base; short legs; long, distended torso with prominent navel and genitals and bearing incised animal and geometric figures on front; dotted pattern on back and upper arms which curve up and join beneath chin; head frontally elongated; large rectangular ears; cracks on left front torso; both sides of head; height 55 cm
Donor:
Alvin O. Pierce
Collection place:
Guinea
Verbatim coll. place:
W. Africa; Guinea; Baga
Culture or time period:
Baga
Collector:
Alvin O. Pierce
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)