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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dawnno, post: 592874, member: 10171&quot;]starting with some &#039;obvious&#039; clues:&nbsp; the woman is carrying a basket of &#039;loaves&#039; of some kind and wearing a head wrap... that might help narrow the cultural regions.&nbsp;&nbsp; These modern marketers are from Ghana.&nbsp; Even the V cut neck of the tops support a &#039;western&#039; influence.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]176763[/ATTACH]</p><p>more Ghanaian...with basket.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]176764[/ATTACH]</p><p>But, that&#039;s common across Africa.&nbsp; So certainly not definitive.</p><p><br /></p><p>The drummer is obviously a &#039;pair&#039; made by the same artist.&nbsp; So, I&#039;d try to tie the features of that to the same place if possible.</p><p><br /></p><p>Similar? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]176765[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So, at the risk of getting in deeper than I should... I&#039;d guess Ghana tourist pieces, maybe 30 yo?</p><p><br /></p><p>The black on the wood may be Kiwi shoe polish, i.e., something readily available to use to make the wood intentionally look more &#039;ebony&#039;-like (the wood) b/c it&#039;s very hard to carve and traditionally more desirable - a common practice in the 70&#039;s by roadside carvers in Africa.&nbsp; This wood is unidentifiable and looser grained.</p><p><br /></p><p>A variety of what you might see as a tourist:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]176766[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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