Object class: Women (female humans) / Culture or time period: African cultures / Function: 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Female bust, accession number 5-13693a, described as Large ebony bust - Benin (Lagos 1944). Female bust, elaborate linear, ridged hairstyle. Height ca. 28.0 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Figure, accession number 5-16285, described as Chokwe (or Songo) figure. female; carved wood; jutting jaw, hunched shoulders, incised lines on upper and lower abdomen. Purchased from Aalderink of Amsterdam

Hearst Museum object titled Painted wooden female figure, accession number 5-4510, described as Standing female figure; carved wood; white woman; pink and black paint. Height 51 cm. Made for sale to Belgians. Hoped “we’d” like. Paint highly admired, but techniques sneered at by Chokwe. (Chokwe said, “And he isn’t even circumcised”)