Figure

Museum number:
5-3201
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
B-213 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.1770
Description:
Carved wooden figure. Standing male ; hands clasped around proturding umbilicum, wearing string of beads around right ankle.
Donor:
University Appropriation and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Tivi Province, Cote d'Ivoire
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Ivory Coast; Tivi Prov.; Baule
Culture or time period:
Baule
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
July 1963
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
Accession date:
1963
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 38.05 centimeters
Comment:
Murdock 32:20Note: The “Original Number” appearing on the catalogue card is the Appraiser’s number; not a Bascom index number. PAHMA Storage Loc: V-29-3
Loans:
S1966-1967 #30: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (November 11, 1966–November 28, 1966), S1968-1969 #84: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Lucretia Nelson (February 24, 1969–March 19, 1969), S1983-1984 #43: Sonoma State University (February 28, 1984–April 24, 1984), and S1984-1985 #23: Sonoma State University (November 28, 1984–April 22, 1985)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Figure, accession number 5-3201, described as Carved wooden figure. Standing male ; hands clasped around proturding umbilicum, wearing string of beads around right ankle.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Figure, accession number 5-3201, described as Carved wooden figure. Standing male ; hands clasped around proturding umbilicum, wearing string of beads around right ankle.

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