A RARE PENDE FEMALE FIGURE, standing with the arms carved free of the body and large hands held together at the abdomen, the face with delicately carved features with typical hooded eyes, curved brow, small nose and carved teeth within parted lips, double notch scarification on each cheek and temple, pierced oval ears, the coiffure dressed in three panels with high crest falling over the nape of the neck, each with hatched chevrons, white beads about the neck and loins, the dark patina scraped from the upper body, arms and back, the face with remains of reddish patina