Negro Head Corner, Arkansas
Negro Head Corner is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Woodruff County, Arkansas, Woodruff County, Arkansas, United States, located about north of Augusta, Arkansas, Augusta. The area is named for an oak sculpture of a Black man's head that was once displayed at the corner of a farm near the crossroads. It was carved by Wade Antney, who farmed the land first as an Slavery in the United States, enslaved person and then later as the owner. It has been theorized that the sculpture represented Legba, the loa of crossroads in Haitian Vodou. However, due to the presence of Kongo religion, Bakongo-based Hoodoo (spirituality), Hoodoo in Arkansas, it is more plausible that the sculpture was a face nkisi, which many Black Americans in the Southern United States, South use for protection, healing and the connection of the physical world to the spiritual world, where the ancestors are said to reside. In American conjure tradition, these figures and Mojo (African-American cu ...
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Unincorporated Area
An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have no unincorporated areas at all or these are very rare: typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or List of uninhabited regions, uninhabited areas. By country Argentina In Argentina, the provinces of Chubut Province, Chubut, Córdoba Province (Argentina), Córdoba, Entre Ríos Province, Entre Ríos, Formosa Province, Formosa, Neuquén Province, Neuquén, Río Negro Province, Río Negro, San Luis Province, San Luis, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, Santa Cruz, Santiago del Estero Province, Santiago del Estero, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina, Tierra del Fuego, and Tucumán Province, Tucumán have areas that are outside any municipality or commune. Australia Unlike many other countries, Australia has only local government in Aus ...
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