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Dinka Headrest
A well balanced and finely rendered headrest from the Dinka of southern sudan. 11″ long. Decades of civil war in the Sudan prevented the region’s ethnographic riches from reaching the western market until the mid 1990s when a political thaw in the conflict and Ugandan military activities opened routes into the southern frontier that had previously been too dangerous. Within two years the flow of artifacts was well infiltrated with newly made confections; after five it was subsumed. This piece was purchased early and is well used. It is carved from a dense savanna hardwood, honestly patinated. 17″ long, 7″ high.
