Wooden figurine, painted

Museum number:
5-1661
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Accession number:
Acc.1302
Description:
Carve wooden figuring: fetish; brownish-red splotches on face. Height 30.48 cm. “Fetishes”: figurines associated with magical “medicines.” They were not made for sale to Europeans, and other Chokwe regarded them as acceptably “traditional” in style.
Donor:
Igor Kopytoff and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Central Africa
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Batchok (Chokwe)
Culture or time period:
Chokwe
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fetishes and Figurines
Function:
5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1960
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Wooden figurine, painted, accession number 5-1661, described as Carve wooden figuring: fetish; brownish-red splotches on face. Height 30.48 cm. “Fetishes”: figurines associated with magical “medicines.” They were not made for sale to Europeans, and other Chokwe regarded them as acceptably “traditional” in style.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Wooden figurine, painted, accession number 5-1661, described as Carve wooden figuring: fetish; brownish-red splotches on face. Height 30.48 cm. “Fetishes”: figurines associated with magical “medicines.” They were not made for sale to Europeans, and other Chokwe regarded them as acceptably “traditional” in style.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Wooden figurine, painted, accession number 5-1661, described as Carve wooden figuring: fetish; brownish-red splotches on face. Height 30.48 cm. “Fetishes”: figurines associated with magical “medicines.” They were not made for sale to Europeans, and other Chokwe regarded them as acceptably “traditional” in style.

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