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pot lids

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    In African art: Lower Congo (Kongo) cultural area

    …the coastal peoples, especially the Woyo, is a wooden pot lid carved with pictorial narratives representing proverbs. The pot lid, which covered the meal served by a wife to her husband, illustrates a particular complaint about their marital relationship—a wife’s displeasure with her husband, for example; when that lid was…

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