Reliquary Figure
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1992
label: Collection Date
content: 1966
name: label: Donor Name
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG. VETTED BY WILLIAM FAGG, PHILIP DARK, & LEON SOROTO FOR HMSG. FAGG CONSIDERED THIS TO BE EITHER BAKOTA OR EVEN A EUROPEAN FORGERY. DARK QUESTIONED FAGG'S COMMENT. SIROTO (AUTHORITY ON FANG) SAW THIS AS FANG BUT "NOT GOOD" & COULD BE FOR TOURIST TRADE OR EVEN PHONY. JH PURCHASED FROM PRIMUS AND STUART GALLERIES OF LOS ANGELES IN 12/19/61. FIGURES LIKE THIS ONE ARE PLACED BY THE BAKOTA OVER A PACKAGE CONTAINING SAMPLE BONES OF OUTSTANDING ANCESTORS (PG ? AFRICAN ART, AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANK WILLETT, PRAEGER, NY 1971). CARVED GEOMETRIC WOODEN FIGURE IS SCREWED TO WOODEN BRACKET ON WOODEN RECTANGULAR BASE. HAS LONG OVAL FACE W/ BULGING ALMOND-SHAPED EYES W/ NAILS' HEADS FOR PUPILS, LONG TRIANGULAR NOSE, INCISED MOUTH. CRESCENT-SHAPED HEADDRESS & CURVED FLANGE ON EITHER SIDE OF FACE. WEARS CONICAL EARRINGS, POINTS DOWN. CYLINDRICAL NECK, BODY IS OPEN-WORK DIAMOND SHAPE, TRUNCATED IN IRREGULAR KNOB. FRONT COVERED W/ NAILED BRASS SHEETING FROM HEADDRESS TO BASE OF NECK, OUTLINED W/ DESIGN OF STAMPED CIRCLES & TRIANGLES, FILLED W/ WHITE SUBSTANCE. CORNERS OF BASE BOTTOM HAVE FELT PADS. BASE LABELS "FS66.14" "S61.161" & DEALER'S LABEL.
label: Notes
content: SI ARCHIVES ACC. 86-136, BOX 1
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 May 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Gabon (not certain), Africa (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fang (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: E428134-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sculpture
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 34.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 15.5 cm
label: Height - W/ Base
content: 78 cm