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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 4410709, member: 8267&quot;]Based on the hairstyle, it depicts a Maasai warrior, but it may not have been made by a Maasai carver. Several groups in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique) make tourist carvings, Makonde among the earliest (1930s on), with the Kamba, Kikuyu and Maasai beginning post WWII. Any might carve different tribal types popular with tourists. The wood is probably African Blackwood, (Dalbergia melanoxylon), which is in the Rosewood genus, rather than any of the woods now considered ebony, which are members of the Diospyros genus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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