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15-Jul-2015

088_Female Body Mask of 185cm high with the image of a bird piecing its long beak into the head.jpg

Description: Female Body Mask of 185cm high with the image of a bird piecing its long beak into the head; The eyes of the bird and prominently depicted and the wings are spread across the head to hold it fast; The bird is well decorated with short vertical lines a few horizontal ones; The rest of the head of the mask is bear and smooth; The rest of the forehead is divided into thirteen segments; The largest of these segments is in the middle and is made of beads of different colors; A Rhino made with blue beads occupy the bottom part of the segment; A tree trunk in green run from top to bottom and divides the whole segment in two; The top and bottom of the forehead has four smaller segments each; Each of the eight segments has an image of on it (from top right: a leaf, abstract symbol?; an animal; an abstract?; from bottom right: and abstract; an animal; and abstract; an animal); Two other segments on each of the sides (left and right) with two abstract images and two animal images completes the images of the forehead; The eyes are very wide and long and are decorated with vertical line patterns a lateral opening close to the small ears suggests the eye ball have been removed; The ears are very short but consisting of many lobes; There is a straight thin and long nose starting from above the wide eyes to down below the cheeks; The cheeks are narrow and slender divided into four segments and have beads decorations. Two tiger-like animals with teeth showing occupy the two top segments; Two birds appearing as dead and lying on their backs occupy the lower segments; Two long arms with line decorations similar to the eyes extend from the cheeks to the torso; The fingers are not separated; The mouth is closed but the lips parted; There is a goatee beard; the torso is short; It is decorated with gold color patterns; The image of an antelope on its knees and the head raised is prominently depicted.
Dimension: Length: 185 cm; broad: cm

Medion AG MD 86497
1/60s f/9.9 at 4.9mm iso800 full exif

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