Figure

Light-weight wood. Full relief, realistic erect figure with a projecting head clasped between feet. Hands joined to hips. Shallow incised designs on body and limbs. Whole carving covered with white pigment except for body and facial features and incisions which are painted light orange, and brows and hair on both heads which are black. Lower head seems to have been cut off so originally this may have been two figures, although the head is much more conventionalized than the figure's head. May have been used in the joai-feast (see 58-17-3 for reference).