Mumuye Lagana Female Figure, Nigeria #75 candle a broad nose

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Mumuye Lagana Female Figure, Nigeria #75 candle a broad noseMumuye Lagana Figure, Nigeria #75 Really discovered by the West only in the early 1960s, the traditional use of Mumuye lagana figures (also called jagana, iagalagana or supa among the Mumuye in the South and the Janari in the North) is not yet very clear. Many sources report the varied and sometimes contradictory uses of these figures: healing, prestige, protection and or divination. In the book Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River