Ancestral Boards "Titi Ebihai"
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: POINTED ELLIPTICAL SHAPE, SUNK GROUND PAINTED IN WHITE AND RAISED AREAS BLACK AND BROWN. CENTRAL FIGURE IS HEAD WITH STYLIZED FIGURE. EYES ARE AT BASE OF LONG, INVERTED TRIANGULAR FORMS. TRUNK IS CIRCLE-AND-CRESCENT UNIT FROM WHICH THIN LIMBS EXTEND. CENTRE OF EYES ARE RAISED ABOVE BOARD AS WELL AS THE NOSE. HOLES PIERCED AT TOP AND BORDER EDGE BY EYES HAS FIBRE (GRASS) ATTATCHED. LOWER SECTION OF NOSE IS PIERCED AS WELL. THERE IS A RAISED EDGE BORDER WITH INCISED CIRCLE AND CRESENT SHAPES, PAINTED IN BANDS OF BROWN AND BLACK, SUNK GROUND IS WHITE MEMORIAL BOARD FOR REVERED ANCESTOR, HUNG OR PROPPED UP EN MASSE INSIDE MEN'S LONG HOUSES. TECH.: TWO DIMENSIONAL LOW RELIEF, RIDGED LINES PROVIDES RELIEF FORM WITH SUNK-GROUND BACKGROUND SURFACE.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Aidio Village, Kerewa Area, 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: E423706-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Board
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 190 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 48 cm
label: Unknown - Thickness
content: 1 cm
label: Unknown - Thickness
content: 4 cm