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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 3149225, member: 8267&quot;]Your figure is a style meant to represent an Ndebele woman of South Africa, wearing the neck rings that signify a married woman. These are popular with tourists, and so are made by a variety of artisans in Africa. If the wood is soft, it has probably been stained (sometimes with shoe polish) to appear more like east African carvings made with African blackwood/ebony, which is a very hard wood. Perhaps it was also smoked over a fire to give it the appearance of age, which may have made it more friable. (Speculating here on this last point.) I am sorry to say it is not a particularly well carved example - your aunt may just have liked it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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