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Visual and Verbal Communication (Hierarchy Name) > Visual Works (Hierarchy Name) > visual works > <visual works by material or technique> > sculpture (visual work) > <sculpture by subject type> > statues > figurines
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Small sculptures, usually of soapstone or steatite, of humans, animals, or monsters, generally three inches to six inches high, from Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia, West Africa, and of unknown date, probably the 7th to the 14th century; may have been ancestor figures, but now used as spirit representations.
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