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Figure, possibly early 1400s (soapstone)

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CVL499889
Image title
Figure, possibly early 1400s (soapstone)
Artist
Sierra Leonean School, (15th century) / Sierra Leonean
Location
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, USA
Medium
soapstone
Dimensions
23.8x11.2x12.5 cms
Image description

The most varied group of soapstone figures and heads has been found in the homelands of the Kissi. Calling them pomda ("images of the dead"), the Kissi placed them in ancestral shrines, offering them the last seeds at sowing times and the first fruits of the harvest. However, the sculptures are believed to have been made centuries ago by the ancestors of the Kissi, the so-called Sapi people.

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Photo © Cleveland Museum of Art / Gift of Lucile Munro in memory of her husband Thomas Munro, Curator of Education from 1931 to 1967 / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords
15th century / figure / guinea coast / female / african / sculpture / stone / male / statuette / sierra leone / sapi / statue
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