Head rest

Museum number:
5-10114
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050010114
Accession number:
Acc.2644
Description:
Headrest, curved wood top, carved wood base, skin-wrapped center with Belgian shotgun shell ornament
Donor:
Estate of Hortense Powdermaker
Collection place:
Zimbabwe
Verbatim coll. place:
S. Rhodesia; Coppertown
Collector:
Hortense Powdermaker
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Headrests
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
June 1970
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Head rest, accession number 5-10114, described as Headrest, curved wood top, carved wood base, skin-wrapped center with Belgian shotgun shell ornament
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Head rest, accession number 5-10114, described as Headrest, curved wood top, carved wood base, skin-wrapped center with Belgian shotgun shell ornament

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