Female Figure with Raised Arm, 15th–17th century, Mali, Tellem peoples (?), Wood (Ficus, Moraceae wood), sacrificial materials, H. 17 5/8 x W. 3 1/4 x D. 4 7/8 in. (44.8 x 8.3 x 12.4 cm), Wood-Sculpture, This female figure stands erect facing forward with her right hand close to her thigh and her left arm powerfully extending towards the sky. The carver of this intimately scaled figure privileged the body’s volumetric forms
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Female Figure, Raised Arm, 15th–17th century, Mali, Tellem peoples, Wood, Ficus, Moraceae wood, sacrificial materials, H, 17 5/8 x W, 3 1/4 D, 4 7/8, 44.8 8.3 12.4 cm, Wood-Sculpture, female, figure, stands, erect, facing, forward, right hand, close, thigh, left arm, powerfully, extending, towards, sky, carver, intimately scaled, privileged, body, volumetric, forms
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