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| Maker(s): | Unknown | | Culture: | African; Liberian
| | Title: | Sapi (or Kissi) Figure
| | Date Made: | 20th century
| | Type: | Sculpture
| | Materials: | carved soapstone
| | Place Made: | Liberia; Sierra Leona; Monrovia
| | Measurements: | 12 3/8 x 6 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.; 31.4325 x 16.51 x 17.145 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | unmarked
| | Accession Number: | SC 2005.7.10
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Gretchen and Richard Swibold
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
squat standing figure with large head, nostrils and protruding eye wearing a coiled snake on his head (which surrounds a large bowl-like indentation in head) with a second smaller snake diagonally across his back
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