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Head for Yam ceremony (Yena)
View through The Met
Wood paint, Yessan-Mayo people
The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection Purchase Mr. and Mrs. Wallace K. Harrison Gift 1974
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