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(FOLK ART.) Stoneware effigy head, with round owl-like eyes, and an open mouth with protuding tongue, with a flat base so it can stand, 11/2x1
(FOLK ART.) Stoneware effigy head, with round owl-like eyes, and an open mouth with protuding tongue, with a flat base so it can stand, 1 1/2x1 inches. South Carolina?, circa 1820-60
- Notes: This small head is typical of stoneware effigy jugs produced by slave craftsmen in South Carolina and elsewhere in the South between the 1820s and 1860s. It was discovered by an arrowhead hunter in a riverbed in northern Illinois along the Vermillion River. The Vermillion River runs from South to North, and was a well-traveled route for escaping slaves headed to Canada. The jugs are usually referred to as "face" or "slave jugs." These jugs often bear a resemblance to the soapstone heads of the Sherbro people of Sierra Leone, and this small version was possibly made as a good-luck fetish and carried by a slave en route to Canada.
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