Figure

Museum number:
5-6340
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
B-1062 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.2308
Description:
Figure; wood; male; standing, hand on stomach; hair-do in four sections, finely incised; relief scar pattern on forehead, neck, stomach and back; traces of textile on buttocls and upper legs; navel protudes. (Termite damage on base, backs of legs and lower stomach)
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Cote d'Ivoire
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa, Ivory Coast; Bouake (Murdock 32:20)
Culture or time period:
Baule
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1962
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
Accession date:
1967
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 35 centimeters and width 6.5 centimeters
Comment:
San Jose state College 1967
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Figure, accession number 5-6340, described as Figure; wood; male; standing, hand on stomach; hair-do in four sections, finely incised; relief scar pattern on forehead, neck, stomach and back; traces of textile on buttocls and upper legs; navel protudes. (Termite damage on base, backs of legs and lower stomach)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Figure, accession number 5-6340, described as Figure; wood; male; standing, hand on stomach; hair-do in four sections, finely incised; relief scar pattern on forehead, neck, stomach and back; traces of textile on buttocls and upper legs; navel protudes. (Termite damage on base, backs of legs and lower stomach)

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