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Senufo (Senufo (culture or style))
Door Panel, Secret Society Shrine
1800 – 1971
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Irving F. Burton
1975/1.68
Standing female figure with each foot on a small base. The hands rest at the sides and around the neck, waist, and ankles are strings of various colored beads. Cowrie shells are strung around the wrists. The pupils of the eyes are metal and on each cheek there are three vertical grooves. The hair is in a rounded comb-like shape with designs of arches and diagonal lines, coated in blue pigment. 
Yoruba (Yoruba (culture or style))
Female Twin Figure
1940 – 1950
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art
1987/2.80
A large base cylinder covered with cowrie shells, triangular flaps made of red and spotted cloth, and leather; some of the flaps have fringes around the edge. Single strands of cowrie shells hang from the base. A smaller, open cylinder sits on top, made of four intersecting bands of cowrie shells. Between the bands are leather and cloth flaps in the shape of triangles attached to rectangles. Across the cowrie shell bands hang four more triangular flaps, some with fringes. The object is topped by a figure of a bird, attached by a metal nail. 
Yoruba (Yoruba (culture or style))
House of the Head
1880 – 1940
Gift of the Honorable Jack Faxon in memory of Pauline Faxon
1991/2.92
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