Iron Bell W/ Painted Handle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1992
label: Collection Date
content: 1986
name: label: Donor Name
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG. IRON BELL (CLAPPERMISSING) HAS CARVED WOODEN HANDLE. HANDLE END HAS CARVED HEAD W/ SMOOTH CAP OF HAIR, THE BACK JUTTING OUT. THIN, INCISED CURVED BROWS, SLITS FOR EYES, THIN NOSE, & SMALL OPEN MOUTH. PAINTED WHITE ALONG JAWS & UNDER HAIR AT BASE OF NECK AND PART OF HANDLE NEAR JOIN. ON TOP OF THE WHITE PAINT ARE PINK CIRCLES. LABELS "PD," "72," AND "AFRICAN S.318.77." CONDITION: LONG CRACKS ALONG LENGTH OF HANDLE. RUSTED BELL. EXTERIOR EDGES COVERED W/ WHITE ENCRUSTATION (DELIBERATE ?)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mapongwe (not certain), Gabon (not certain), Africa (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: E428143-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bell
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 55.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 14 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 10 cm