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Nomoli

Scope note

Use for 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.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000257101

Broader Terms used

figurines

Term used for

nomori
numori

Created

13yrs ago

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