Standing Nude Female Figure
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. CARVED DARK-BROWN FIGURE STANDS ON OVAL BASE SCREWED INTO RECESS OF RECTANGULAR WOODEN BASE. HIGHLY STYLIZED FIGURE HAS ANGULAR FEATURES WITH JUTTING BREASTS, ELONGATED TORSO, POINTED BUTTOCKS, AND BENT THIN LEGS. RECTANGULAR FACE HAS INCISED OUTLINES OF ROUND EYES, CARVED NOSE, SMALL SCULPTED OPEN MOUTH, AND SCULPTED EARS. HAIRSTYLE IS A CREST IN CENTER OF HEAD TO BASE OF HEAD. SERIES OF TINY HOLES ALONG THE BACK OF THE CREST. HAS INCISED SCARIFICATION MARKS ALONG CHEEKS, TEMPLES. WEARS A RECTANGULAR PENDANT (?) BETWEEN BREASTS. SLIGHTLY PROTRUDING NAVEL. THIN ARMS SLIGHTLY APART FROM BODY, INCISED BANDS AT ELBOWS (BRACELETS OR SCARS ?) W/ HANDS RESTING ON TOP OF THIGHS. HANDS AND GENITALS HAVE DETAILS. WEARS ANKLE BANDS (?) BASE LABELS "S279.74" "A22" AND "AFRICAN, DAGO STANDING FIGURE."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Mali (not certain), Africa (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Dogon (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: E428221-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sculpture
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 14.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 11 cm
label: Height - W/base
content: 61.5 cm