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Kissi, Mende and other peoples living in Guinea and Sierra Leone unearth several styles of stone figures and heads from their fields, streams and wells. They attribute these figures to the former inhabitants of the land or to spirits and reuse them in ancestral or agricultural shrines. Although dates have been proposed by stylistically comparing the figures and heads with export ivories and a few carbon-dated wood figures, their original makers and uses are unknown.
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Credit lineHead. 15th-17th century. Nomoli Style. National Museum of African Art, Gift of Walt Disney World Co., a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. CC0.
