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A FINE VILI FEMALE FIGURE, kneeling with the arms carved free of the body and the hands placed on the thighs, the long slender feet with curved toes and carved anklets, the head with well-carved features and coloured yellow, the eyes white with black pupils behind oval glass inlays beneath scorched brows, a rectangular carved basket on the top of the head and a conical hole at the back of the head, panels of keloid scarification on the back and a carved band above the conical breasts, carved wristlets, two nuts suspended from two plaited raffia bands about the neck, on shaped base, dark glossy patina, minor shallow cracks
26cm. high
