The Hooded Lady is a female face sculpted in mammoth ivory, measuring just 1.4in / 3.6 cm high, 0.78in / 2 cm wide and 0.86 in / 2.2 cm thick. This head is not a fragment of a female statuette representing a whole body, but an intact work. Average dating of 30,000 years.
Uniqueness
The eye is perceived by the viewer's imagination, thanks to the framework provided by the artist; this is one of the many choices of skilful and masterful abstraction made by the latter.
Manufacturing techniques
The incision - Hair squaring.
Perforation - A rough perforation appears to have been made to suggest the pupil of the right eye.
Scraping - The face was shaped by scraping, the traces of which can be seen on the forehead, cheeks and nose.
Polishing - Other areas, such as the neck, appear to have undergone gentle polishing.