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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 2338722, member: 8267&quot;]Similar carvings are made by several groups in east and southern Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa). It looks similar to this carving made by a Maasai artisan in Kenya:</p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Hand-Carved-Wooden-Maasai-Sculpture-from-Africa-African-Art-Original-Wood-/362727550027" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Hand-Carved-Wooden-Maasai-Sculpture-from-Africa-African-Art-Original-Wood-/362727550027" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/itm/Hand-Carved-Wooden-Maasai-Sculpture-from-Africa-African-Art-Original-Wood-/362727550027</a></p><p>I would not usually cite an ebay listing, but this one comes from a crafts cooperative with direct connections to Kenya. Such carvings are made for sale as souvenirs.</p><p><br /></p><p>It may be portraying an Ndebele woman, an ethnic group in Zimbabwe and South Africa in which married women wear neck rings.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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