Figure

Museum number:
5-7238
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
10 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2438
Description:
wood figure, standing male, both hands holding one stick, blue-black color, hunter. 36 cms height (crack in base & left foot)
Donor:
LeRoy M. Law
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Nigeria; Yoruba
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
LeRoy M. Law
Collection date:
before 1968
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
Accession date:
1968
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 36 centimeters
Comment:
(Murdock 31:31); part of African art teaching set; to be used as traveling exhibit for Bay area schools; File Code: 5.7 [crossed out on card]; 5. [handwritten on card: 0]
Loans:
S1968-1969 #32: Mission High School/Minerva Barranco (November 6, 1968–November 27, 1968)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Figure, accession number 5-7238, described as wood figure, standing male, both hands holding one stick, blue-black color, hunter. 36 cms height (crack in base & left foot)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Figure, accession number 5-7238, described as wood figure, standing male, both hands holding one stick, blue-black color, hunter. 36 cms height (crack in base & left foot)

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