Ring

Wè people, Liberia, African

20th century

  • Titles Ring (Descriptive)
  • Medium brass
  • Dimensions 1 1/2 x 1 1/4 x 1 in. (3.8 x 3.2 x 2.5 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Drs. Noble and Jean Endicott, 1990.221
  • Work Type ring
  • Classification Jewelry

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Small, stylized flat doll carved from animal bone, with incised and painted details representing a head with "curly" hair and beard in the form of circles with dots in the middle, and a face with two eyes with dots for eyebrows and nose, the body unarticulated.
Carved wooden chair. Animals and figures on back seat crest, stretchers, and front stiles. Brass nail heads form eyes on some animals and figures, also applied as decorative elements. The seat is skin/hide which still has some remaining hair. It has been stretched over the seat rail and tied with strips of gut or hide.
Short robe of dark khaki cotton with crew neck and butterfly sleeves, the entire garment is hand embroidered with red, yellow, beige and blue cotton threads in a pattern consisting of wave-pattern bands at the waist and neck as well as along the sleeves and hem, within the bands is a pattern of irregularly-shaped organic elements, or gongs, and crescent shapes interspersed with diamonds and triangles.
Heddle Pulley, Baule people, Côte d'Ivoire, African, wood and string