What is the significance of the headdress worn by the central figure in this Kalabari ancestral screen?
A) Reference to the travels of the deceased around the coasts of Africa
B) Reference to the deceased chief's successful trading business
C) Reference to the ravages of the slave trade on the family of the deceased
D) Reference to the god of the equatorial trade winds
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