Ibibio Seated Female Fetish Room Guardian Figure

Her teeth are showing. Her hands are on her knees. She is not getting up.

This seated female fetish room guardian figure is Ibibio, from Nigeria in West Africa, 20th century, in terra cotta. Ibibio art of southeastern Nigeria is known for expressive faces and for objects connected with shrines and spiritual protection. She sits very upright on a small pedestal stool, with a crested coiffure, grinning mouth and white traces on the face. Long arms drop to bangled wrists, and her legs run straight to large flat feet. Thick rolls wrap the waist. Thirty inches high.

A room with her in it is a room already taken.