Statuette

Museum number:
5-2578
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050002578
Accession number:
Acc.2116
Description:
Wooden statuette of female; brass eyes, horn stuck in top of head; on commercial black painted metal base. Height 23.5 cm.
Donor:
Merton Simpson's Gallery and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Verbatim coll. place:
Congo; Leopoldville; Basongye, Beneki Songye, Nsaposapo Subgroup, Djibu Sub-Subgroup
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Statuettes (free-standing sculpture)
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
Accession date:
1966
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Loans:
S1975-1976 #7: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (August 21, 1975–November 20, 1975)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Statuette, accession number 5-2578, described as Wooden statuette of female; brass eyes, horn stuck in top of head; on commercial black painted metal base. Height 23.5 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Statuette, accession number 5-2578, described as Wooden statuette of female; brass eyes, horn stuck in top of head; on commercial black painted metal base. Height 23.5 cm.

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