Female Figure

This wooden figure is described by the Sierra Leone national Museum as a Mandingo figure, with Limba characteristics. It was bought badly damaged by wood worm, and may have deteriorated further since. The original description reads the lady is sitting on a stool which is painted green and silver. Her skirt is painted yellow and her dress dark green. Her body is painted pink and her eyes silver. She wears dark bluish-green shoes. The stool and her feet are resting on a base that is painted silver...Used for ancestor worship...with white rice, Kola, and water. .

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Further Information

• Type: Figures, sculpture
• Object: Female Figure
• Materials: Wood
• Culture Group: Limba, Mandingo
• Dimensions: Unknown
• Production Date: Pre 1978
• Associated Places: Freetown (Place collected)
• Associated People: Mr. Winston Taylor, Freetown (Trader); Ebanbai Mansaray (Previous owner)
• Museum: Sierra Leone National Museum
• Accession Number: SLNM.1978.01.01

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