Female figure

Museum number:
5-3354
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
B-219 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.1770
Description:
Carved wooden figure. Standing female with hands around navel; white, blue and black beads around legs and arms. Per inventory 6/14/12, found with 2 bags of fragments.
Donor:
University Appropriation and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Cote d'Ivoire
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa, east Ivory Coast; Akon Tribes, Anyi
Culture or time period:
Anyi
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
July 1963
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works), 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 27.3 centimeters
Comment:
Murdock 32:17Note: The “Original Number” appearing on the catalogue card is the Appraisers number; not a Bascom index number. PAHMA Storage Loc: V-29-2
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Female figure, accession number 5-3354, described as Carved wooden figure. Standing female with hands around navel; white, blue and black beads around legs and arms. Per inventory 6/14/12, found with 2 bags of fragments.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Female figure, accession number 5-3354, described as Carved wooden figure. Standing female with hands around navel; white, blue and black beads around legs and arms. Per inventory 6/14/12, found with 2 bags of fragments.

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