Contemporary stone sculpture, originally from Nigeria. A sculpture roughly shaped like a square. A half face is carved out of the stone. The face has a wide forehead with a pointy chin, a long nose, a small mouth with engraved eyebrows. The eye is a pierced hole through the stone. There is larger pierced hole to the right of the face. The face is highly polished. The outside of the sculpture has been left rough.
figures (art); sculpture
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