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Museum number:
5-16281
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
B-1099 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.4739
Description:
carved wood, long neck, short arms and legs, large feet on a stand. hair and facial features stained. Conservation: Drying crack down back of head and neck.
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Republic of the Congo
Verbatim coll. place:
Central Africa; Congo; Ba Songye
Culture or time period:
Ba Songye
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 5.5 centimeters, width 4.7 centimeters, and length 20.3 centimeters
Comment:
PAHMA Storage Loc: V 4-Bascom-1
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Figure, accession number 5-16281, described as carved wood, long neck, short arms and legs, large feet on a stand. hair and facial features stained. Conservation: Drying crack down back of head and neck.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Figure, accession number 5-16281, described as carved wood, long neck, short arms and legs, large feet on a stand. hair and facial features stained. Conservation: Drying crack down back of head and neck.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Figure, accession number 5-16281, described as carved wood, long neck, short arms and legs, large feet on a stand. hair and facial features stained. Conservation: Drying crack down back of head and neck.

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