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date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Apr 1994
label: Collection Date
content: 1970's
name: label: Collector
content: George C. McGhee
label: Donor Name
content: George C. McGhee
notes: label: Notes
content: STANDING MALE FIGURE WITH THICK STOOL AT HEIGHT OF HIS SHOULDERS; 3 CARVED SEATED FIGURES AT BASE; STOOL SUPPORTED BY TWO CARVED LEGS AND THE MALE FIGURE AS THE THIRD STOOL SUPPORT; THE ENTIRE PIECE IS CARVED FROM ONE PIECE OF WOOD; MALE FIGURE HAS ELONGATED OVAL FACE COVERED WITH WHITE, OCHRE AND BROWN PIGMENTATION; INSET SHELL DISC EYES WITH A NAIL IN CENTER OF EACH; 2 SETS PIGS TUSKS, FACING UP AND DOWN FROM NOSE; INCISED CARVINGS AROUND THE ENTIRE PERIMETER OF FACE; CASSOWARY FEATHERS ON TOP OF CROWN; REMAINS OF A POSSUM SKIN AND BITS OF POSSUM FUR IN FRONT OF CROWN BELOW FEATHERS; BUNDLES OF WRAPPED GRASSES STRUNG AND TIED AROUND NECK; APRON OF CELLULOSE FIBER TIED AT WAIST; SEATED FIGURES HAVE INSET COWRIE SHELL EYES WITH STRANDS OF CELLULOSE FIBERS TIED THROUGH EARS, NOSE AND NECK;ONE FIGURE HAS ROUND SHELL DISC TIED AROUND NECK; ALL THREE SEATED FIGURES HAVEMARKINGS OF WHITE PIGMENT AND TRIANGULAR HATS. DAMAGE: APRON AROUND MALE STANDING FIGURE IS DAMAGED AND FALLING OFF.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Mar 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sepik River (Middle), New Guinea / East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 390923
label: USNM Number
content: E427134-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stool
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 57 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 43 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 165 cm