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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 11071582, member: 8267&quot;]If she valued the piece enough to have it insured, it seems she would not have allowed a child to play with or paint it, if that is what you are suggesting. Different photographic lighting and different films can make colors appear less accurate. (Note the difference in the blue areas in the first photos you posted here and the ones you posted later.)</p><p><br /></p><p>But the inaccurate written description is more problematic. The only thing I might suggest is that whoever assigned the insurance value might have been working from a photograph such as the one you have, and did not examine the object itself. </p><p><br /></p><p>It does seem to have suffered noticeable changes since the earlier photograph was taken, possibly due the conditions of display or storage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you know anything about the history of the woman who gave it to you, and what her connection to Burkina Faso (previously Upper Volta) might have been?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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