We have chosen to illustrate this fine figure without the beaded and cloth panel, which are used to hide its sexual deficiency, in order to show the plump curves of the buttocks and thighs. It is impossible to find a parallel to our figure in the exhaustive study made by Perrios in 1971, but we think that is likely to come from Equatorial Guinea. A figure in the Osorio collection, Madrid, also has the unusual carved neckring, which imitates the heavy metal collars worn by men of the Fang (Perrois, 1972, p.288, fig.212); some figures from that region have the long single fall of hair over the nape of the neck to well below the shoulder line

The row of four impressed circles each side of the breast is unusual. A suggestion that they may be the impressions of pegs formerly retaining a label must be discounted, because they are repeated on the back, where their decorative role is unmistakable