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Hand Carved African Wood Sculpture of a Woman, "Dipo Girl"
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With shy pride, a girl prepares for the dipo dance. Her adolescent body indicates she has reached puberty, an age associated with fertility. Among the Shai and Krobo tribes of Ghana, the dipo initiation ceremony is a series of traditional rites performed when a youth attains maturity. Working in pale sese wood, Kwame Kandavi depicts the nubile young maiden as a sculpture.
- 0.87 kgs
- 1.9 lbs
- 42 cm H x 18.5 cm W x 6.5 cm D
- 16.5" H x 7.25" W x 2.6" D
- Sese wood
- Hand-crafted item -- color, size and/or motif may vary slightly
- Wood grain and color can vary slightly
- Made in Ghana.
- Certified and shipped by our office in West Africa
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Michael
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02/03/2020
"What you give to the couple that has it all"
I purchased this for my ever-so talented and world traveled niece & her husband as a wedding gift . It has found a happy place in a happy home . It has been reported they love it so on to infinity .
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