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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Painting, accession number 5-17044, described as Picture entitled "Diviners are the Dividers of the Families". Features a diviner speaking to a group of seated men, and one standing man. In the background are 2 women and a child carrying vessels on their heads, several chickens, a dog and a group of round dwelling. Signed, "by Skata", and noted on the back as painted by S. Kappata, PO Box 67, Panyonyo, Mongu, West Province, Zambia, Central Africa, Tel: 07-221605. 4/9/1997.
Hearst Museum object titled Painting, accession number 5-17045, described as Painting. Oil on paper. Picture entitled, "Refugees coming the long way from Angola to Zambia through the Western Province". Features a ling of 5 adults, 3 children and a dog, each carrying bundles as they walk along a path through grassland. On the horizon are trees and round dwellings. Unsigned. Label on back from Stoll Custom Framing in Berkeley, CA. Attributed: S Kappata.
Hearst Museum object titled Painting, accession number 11-45530, described as Painting on canvas board. Dark brown ground . Light brown figure partly overlaying a partial rectangle in center- is bordered by brown dots and has two "eyes" with "lashed" all around, on each side of a beak or nose. Above and beside the central figure are light brown arcs outlined with brown dots, which join at center top. Unsigned and artist unknown. 2008
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Peddler figurine, accession number 16-20607a,b, described as Ceramic figure with painted face, clothing and appendages, wearing a Peruvian knitted hat, and carrying a basket, piece of fur, a pair of sandals, a mattress, money pots, and five bags of unidentified merchandise, all strapped to his body.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Phonograph record, accession number 24-318.1, described as Glass base disc record. Four “dogwai o qwec” songs, two young Doctor songs, and “Mr. McGlinn”, words. Faulty Cole Phillippines dubbings (?) LG NOTE: probably [a] used tape. See accession envelope for additional information.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Phonograph record, accession number 24-317.1, described as Glass base disc record. Two young Doctor songs, one song about a bird talking, one Lizard song (in two parts), one other song. See accession envelope for additional information.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Photograph, accession number 13-6882, described as Photo (profile) of Elaine or Alberta, granddaughter of Elizabeth Francesco, maker of basket 1-259601. 1940.
Hearst Museum object titled Pipe, accession number 5-17003a,b, described as (a) Gourd pipe with bamboo stem and (b) detachable ceramic bowl. Bowl is decorated with a plain band, lip to shoulder, and a cross hatched pattern broken by 4 plain "V" shapes opening toward the stem. A raised band around the stem is decorated with incised cuts. 1963
Hearst Museum object titled Pipe, accession number 5-17018, described as Ceramic pipe bowl composed of a small bowl decorated with alternate crosshatched bands and undecorated bands each of which is periodically interspersed with small geometric elements. The bowl sits upon the neck of an animal with curled horns. The stem of the pipe emerges from the neck of the animal. Two legs serve to provide a standing base of the pipe bowl, along with the animal's muzzle. By lla, before 1974.
Hearst Museum object titled Pipe, accession number 5-17031, described as Man's pipe with bamboo stem and ceramic bowl, modeled in the shape of a man's head. Stem is rough cut and tapered at the end attached to the bowl. Ceramic bowl is attached by a hollow tube (partially broken) and is of a terracotta clay filed to very dark brown. Native name = mfuko. 1972. Africa, Ambia, Gwembe, Tonga, Chipepo Chieftan.

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