carved wooden figure; standing female with hands clasped around protruding umbilicum; string of red beads around thighs;
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
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Figurines and Women (female humans)
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
Accession date:
1963
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 42.21 centimeters
Comment:
See Murdock 32:20. Photo: 15-21414; 15-21417; 15-21419
Loans:
S1965-1966 #86a: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (May 19, 1966–September 6, 1966), S1971-1972 #64: Art Gallery (Mills College) (January 3, 1972–February 22, 1972), and S1975-1976 #7: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (August 21, 1975–November 20, 1975)