Figure

Museum number:
5-3198
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
B-174 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.1770
Description:
Carved wooden figure. Standing female ; hands clasped around protruding umbilicum; lines around eyes; worm-eaten.
Donor:
University Appropriation and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Tivi Province, Cote d'Ivoire
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Ivory Coast; Tivi Prov.; Baule
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
July 1963
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
Accession date:
1963
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 30.45 centimeters
Comment:
Murdock 32:20Note: The “Original Number” appearing on the catalogue card is the Appraiser’s number; not a Bascom index number. PAHMA Storage Loc: V-29-3
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Figure, accession number 5-3198, described as Carved wooden figure. Standing female ; hands clasped around protruding umbilicum; lines around eyes; worm-eaten.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Figure, accession number 5-3198, described as Carved wooden figure. Standing female ; hands clasped around protruding umbilicum; lines around eyes; worm-eaten.

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