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Female Figure
Female Figure
Image © Worcester Art Museum, all rights reserved.

Female Figure

Culture Lagoon peoples African
Dateby 1929
Mediumwood with pigment
Dimensions57.8 cm (22 3/4 in.)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1936.7
ProvenanceJean Laporte (Bordeaux, France), sold to the University Museum, 1929;
University Museum (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), sold to the Worcester Art Museum, 1936.
On View
Not on view
Female Figure
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