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 A female Jukun sculpture, Central Nigeria’s Benue River Region.. "was a kinetic ancestral sculpture. According to accounts gathered by researchers, such works were animated in performances devoted to agricultural rites as well as to those relating to initiation of young boys into adulthood. Access to those events was highly circumscribed. Women, children, and outsiders were not allowed to view those nocturnal apparitions." Met Museum. sold Height: 57 cm
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