Raffia palm seed.
Necklace consisting vegetable fibre thread decorated with small red seeds and seven carved wood figures depicting human heads. Features such as hair, eyes and lips and painted on in black. There are six similar hears, two of which depend on a separate loop of thread. One is elongated and is strung in the centre.
The seven carved heads have been individually numbered part are on the same necklace.
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