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Original Title
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Wood Carved Makonde Shetani
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Devised Title
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Makonde Shetani
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Date
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Unknown
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Contributor
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Don Hill
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Frank Pinder
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Description
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A hand-carved, wooden African Makonde Shetani sculpture likely originating from the Makonde people in Tanzania, northern Mozambique, or Kenya. The Shetani are East African Islamic spirits who are depicted in varying forms, mostly abstract and distorted, and seen as malevolent beings. The word, “shetani” itself is Swahili for “little devil.”
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Location
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Tallahassee
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Leon County
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Florida
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United States of America
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Type
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Sculpture
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Medium
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Wood
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Additional Techniques
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Carving
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Measurements
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L:84cm x W:16.5cm
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Format
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JPEG
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HBCU Identifier
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CO_0001_03_001_0003
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HCAC Identifier
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HCAC.FAMU.0017
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Rights
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All rights reserved. The use of any part of these objects and photographs transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system without the prior written consent of MEBA is an infringement of the copyright law.
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Contributing Institution
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Florida A&M University
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Language
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English