in news:4207da10$1@news.povray.org Jim Charter wrote:

> I don't think they are clay, not sure what is underneath

"Wood, bark, clay, blood conglomerat"

Ingo

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ingo wrote:
> in news:4207da10$1@news.povray.org Jim Charter wrote:
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>>I don't think they are clay, not sure what is underneath
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> "Wood, bark, clay, blood conglomerat"
> 
> Ingo
Yes I saw that. I took it to mean the clay was mixed with the other 
stuff but maybe it is the underlaying substance. This is the first place 
I've seen it admitted that blood is invovled.  I'd been assuming that 
"ritual organic materials" was a euphanism for blood.  That term or 
similar is used in several places at the Metropolitan Museum.

And in one place on that link it says they've x-rayed the interiors to 
indeterminate conclusion.  Maybe nails are inside one of them. 
Interesting, I'd been assuming some sort of armature of twigs maybe 
wrapped in cloth.  Based on nothing more than my ever active 
assumptionation of course.

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ingo wrote:
> in news:4207da10$1@news.povray.org Jim Charter wrote:
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>>I don't think they are clay, not sure what is underneath
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> "Wood, bark, clay, blood conglomerat"
> 
> Ingo
Another branch off of that same site gives the most detailed description 
I have yet seen:
http://www.randafricanart.com/Bamana_Boli.html

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