Beschreibung:

a fine fang male reliquary figure The eyes as metal insets beneath a shallow brow and domed forehead, a third metal inset beneath the prognathous jaw, the coiffure withhigh grooved median crest tapered to form the centre of the panel over the nape of the neck, the hole at the top retaining a long loop of split cane, a carved ring about the neck, the plump arms carved free of the body (both hands and right forearm deficient), a series of impressed small circles flank the chest, down each side of the back and at the top of the insertion stick, with plump well-rounded buttocks and calves (part of the penis and left foot deficient) 47 cm high