Word: biery
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...more than 600 specimens which Collector James Johnson Sweeney assembled last week, critics picked three as particularly noteworthy 1) Bieri, a stolid engaging head of a young girl from French Gabun, with long formalized curls; 2) a witch doctor's Konde figure, dumpy, menacing and studded with nails representing curses against an enemy; 3) a squatting Venus, also from French Gabun. From Dahomey came one of the largest exhibits, the iron war god in the lobby, nearly life-size and wearing a strange spiked hat and a garment like a pleated nightshirt. His raised left arm looked...
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