Completed Figure -- Stage 5 in Woodcarving Process
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Sep 2001
name: label: Donor Name
content: Lamidi O. Fakeye
notes: label: Notes
content: Figure representing the final stage in Yoruba woodcarving, called "finfin". In this stage, the carver, Lamidi Fakeye, has cut the final details on the figure with a knife. Figure is a man with prominent ears and facial features, holding a drum under one arm and a drumstick in the other hand. He is wearing a robe, pants, and hat with matching linear patterns on them. Mary Jo Arnoldi, curator of African Ethnology, says this figure generally appears in royal tableaus or in those honoring the Yoruba gods.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ife, Nigeria, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yoruba
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2019778
label: USNM Number
content: E431416-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 30.2 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 9.5 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 7 cm