Figurine

Museum number:
18-1619
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
F-21 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4588
Description:
Stick/shaft, wood; bone figure of squatting man, with wood scalp; attached to shaft with brass brads; polished wood shaft studded with steel brads in concentric rings one third of the way from each end; bone collar near bottom, pointed end; a fake, although “the bone carving is actually a tourist carving from Timor which has been carefully reattached to a carefully made and aged ironwood shaft.”
Donor:
Irwin Hersey
Collection place:
Borneo, Indonesia
Culture or time period:
Iban people
Collector:
Irwin Hersey
Collection date:
1990
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Figurines
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Figurine, accession number 18-1619, described as Stick/shaft, wood; bone figure of squatting man, with wood scalp; attached to shaft with brass brads; polished wood shaft studded with steel brads in concentric rings one third of the way from each end; bone collar near bottom, pointed end; a fake, although “the bone carving is actually a tourist carving from Timor which has been carefully reattached to a carefully made and aged ironwood shaft.”
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Figurine, accession number 18-1619, described as Stick/shaft, wood; bone figure of squatting man, with wood scalp; attached to shaft with brass brads; polished wood shaft studded with steel brads in concentric rings one third of the way from each end; bone collar near bottom, pointed end; a fake, although “the bone carving is actually a tourist carving from Timor which has been carefully reattached to a carefully made and aged ironwood shaft.”

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