Figure

Museum number:
5-15800
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050015800
Alternate number:
B-1111 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.4661
Description:
Female, wood, handcarved ba-lumbu (“Gabon”) figure. . H=36.5cm;W=8.8cm. (Purchased in 1964, from Pierre Vertile, Galerie Carrefour, 141 Boulevard Raspail, Paris 6e, $105 + shipping)
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Gabon
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa; Gabon; BaLumbu (or MaShongo)
Culture or time period:
Balumbu
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
Accession date:
December 12, 1994
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Comment:
Illustrated: Bascom, African Arts, 1967 #131 San Francisco Chronicle, This World, 4/9/1967, p. 25 KPFA Folkio April, Vol 18:1, 1967, p. 10 Bascom, 1973:90Per Gaskin 4303, “probably ma-Shango”;Per Robbins 1966, - 244 Ba-Lumbo;Per Laude - 113, “Pangwe”;Welcome catalogue 244 Ogowe RiverOlbrecths 1959: 11 Ba-LumboGreenburg: Ba-lumbu, not Ba-Lumbo;Fagg 1966 II, 40 “Ba-lumbo”.B/W photo stored with Bascom Collection Index card file.Slide. PAHMA Storage Loc: V-25-10
Loans:
S1968-1969 #39: Contra Costa College (November 18, 1968–December 27, 1968), S1968-1969 #87: College of Marin (April 3, 1969–May 2, 1969), S1969-1970 #32: Santa Rosa Junior College (October 24, 1969–October 31, 1969), and S1970-1971 #150: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (October 23, 1970–May 18, 1971)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Figure, accession number 5-15800, described as Female, wood, handcarved ba-lumbu (“Gabon”) figure. . H=36.5cm;W=8.8cm. (Purchased in 1964, from Pierre Vertile, Galerie Carrefour, 141 Boulevard Raspail, Paris 6e, $105 + shipping)Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Figure, accession number 5-15800, described as Female, wood, handcarved ba-lumbu (“Gabon”) figure. . H=36.5cm;W=8.8cm. (Purchased in 1964, from Pierre Vertile, Galerie Carrefour, 141 Boulevard Raspail, Paris 6e, $105 + shipping)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Figure, accession number 5-15800, described as Female, wood, handcarved ba-lumbu (“Gabon”) figure. . H=36.5cm;W=8.8cm. (Purchased in 1964, from Pierre Vertile, Galerie Carrefour, 141 Boulevard Raspail, Paris 6e, $105 + shipping)

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