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Authentic Art and Ethnographic Objects From Africa / Custom Mounting Services
The Bura culture is known from several sites in western Niger. Heads survived the centuries better than Bura “bodies,” as heads were generally solid, while bodies were made in the manner of pots with relatively thin, easily shattered walls. Heads topped figures, tube-like towers, and spherical and hemispherical vessels. This fragment, which preserves an expressive face and bulging eyes, retains a suggestion of the inverted bowl-like form it once surmounted. $600
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