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Collected By: Townsend
Region: Abeokuta, Nigeria, West Africa
Description: Figure of Esu, who wears an elaborate female hair-style consistent with his desire to confuse. The style of the carving is associated with North-east Oyo. This figure and another stood either side of the entrance to chief Ogunbona’s Palace in Abeokuta. Both were given to Townsend by the chief, who died in 1861.
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