Painted wooden female figure

Museum number:
5-4510
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1375
Description:
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”)
Donor:
Daniel J. Crowley and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Dumba, Katanga province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Congo; Katanga Prov.; Dumba, near Dilolo Gare; Mbunda
Culture or time period:
Mbunda
Collector:
Daniel J. Crowley
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works) and Women (female humans)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1960
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Loans:
S1974-1975 #67: Civic Arts Center (Walnut Creek) (February 5, 1975–May 7, 1975)
Images:
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”)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with 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”)

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