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ANTIQUE WOODEN KORO FIGURE FROM TARABA STATE

Made by the Koro People of Nigeria, depicting a sturdy, free standing figure with male head and neck appearances on a female body, with extensive scarifications on the whole chest, upper arms and upper back, scarifications on forehead above the eyebrows, cheekbones, cheeks and chin, with a container of curvilinear form / a deeply hollowed receptible, shrunk in the center, that was used for libations during ritual sacrifices or secondary funeral ceremonies, celebrating the arrival of the deceased in afterlife.