Ancestral Board "Gope"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Jan 1987
label: Collection Date
content: 1966
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Thomas Schultz-Westrum
label: Donor Name
content: Evelyn J. Hall
notes: label: Notes
content: COLOURS USED, RED, BLACK AND WHITE, FAINT APPEARANCE. LOWER PORTION AFFECTED BY DETERIORATION OF WOOD. NOTES FROM SHEETS. ORIGINATES FROM PIERAN REGION AND WAS MOVED IN OLD TIMES TO LOCATION WHERE COLLECTED. DESIGN - FACE AT TOP WITH STYLIZED SYMMETRICALBODY FIGURATION, SURFACE AREA IS LARGELY SUNK-GROUND. MEMORIAL BOARD FOR REVERED ANCESTOR, HUNG OR PROPPED UP EN MASSE INSIDE MEN'S LONG HOUSES. ROUNDED OBLONG FORM WITH CONVEX. TECH.: TWO-DIMENSIONAL LOW RELIEF CARVING WITH SUNK GROUND, RIDGED LINE, PROVIDING RELIEF FORM.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Jul 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ururumba, New Guinea / Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 358974
label: USNM Number
content: E423701-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Board
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 102 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 33 cm
label: Unknown - Thickness
content: 2.5 cm
label: Unknown - Thickness
content: 4 cm