Cleveland Museum of Art
Female Bowl-Bearing Figure
late 1800s-early 1900s
Symbolic of anvils, the round metal tacks decorating the figure's hair "pin" spirits and their secrets within it. They are at the hairline and each of the four hair cascades (the bottommost is now gone).
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