Board

Museum number:
5-15237
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4428
Description:
Burden board; carved and incised reddish brown wood, well worn; handles at opposite ends; band of triangles filled with diagonal lines and other geometric designs; depression on underside to fit head
Donor:
Joan Wescott
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Nigeria (Northern Plateau); Jarawa peoples
Culture or time period:
Jarawa
Collector:
Joan Wescott
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
July 25, 1989
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Board, accession number 5-15237, described as Burden board; carved and incised reddish brown wood, well worn; handles at opposite ends; band of triangles filled with diagonal lines and other geometric designs; depression on underside to fit head
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Board, accession number 5-15237, described as Burden board; carved and incised reddish brown wood, well worn; handles at opposite ends; band of triangles filled with diagonal lines and other geometric designs; depression on underside to fit head

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