Statue showing a young crouching chief wearing a cover-up held by a belt around …
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Statue

showing a young crouching chief wearing a cover-up held by a belt around his waist, a large necklace with several rows of amulets and a beard neatly tied in several braids. Beautiful vigorous expression of the face. Terra cotta with smoothed orange-beige slip, missing, broken and glued in various places Nok, Nigeria, 500 BC to 500 AD 42 x 19 cm

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