Figure
- Museum number:
- 5-16285
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050016285
- Alternate number:
- B-1183 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4739
- Description:
- Chokwe (or Songo) figure. female; carved wood; jutting jaw, hunched shoulders, incised lines on upper and lower abdomen. Purchased from Aalderink of Amsterdam
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- Republic of the Congo
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Central Africa, Congo, Chokwe or Songo
- Culture or time period:
- Chokwe and Songo
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Collection date:
- 1965
- Materials:
- Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Carvings (visual works), Figurines, and Women (female humans)
- Function:
- 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
- Accession date:
- June 23, 2004
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- height 18 centimeters and width 4 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1968-1969 #87: College of Marin (April 3, 1969–May 2, 1969) and S1969-1970 #32: Santa Rosa Junior College (October 24, 1969–October 31, 1969)
- Images:
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