Figure, Cast Metal Head
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Jun 1989
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of American History
notes: label: Notes
content: Cast metal head and neck. Realistic face with pronounced scarification, elongated neck ornamented with concentric circles. Entire head is pierced by holes in several places. Shows some blackening and corrosion. Identified by Gordon Gibson, Curator Emeritus, African Ethnology, NMNH, as southern Nigeria, or possibly Benin, dated to the late 19th or early 20th centuries, and made for commercial purposes. He says this is a good example to compare with more traditional work in technique and style.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Feb 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Nigeria (not certain), Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Nigerian (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 283641
label: USNM Number
content: E423669-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure