Fetish
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Jul 1894
name: label: Donor Name
content: American Colonization Society
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CHIMPANZEE SKULL. BOTTOM COVERED WITH BLACK CLOTH TO HOLD PEBBLES INSIDE SKULL. CHECKERBOARD ORNAMENTATION ON TOP OF SKULL. BRAIDED HEMP IN BACK PERHAPS FOR HANGING PURPOSES." Note re photos: Neg. #2005-25297 is color digital of left 3/4 view of skull/fetish. Neg. #2005-25298 is color digital of closer left 3/4 view of skull. Neg. #2005-25299 is color digital view of front of skull. Neg. #2005-25300 is color digital of closer view of front of skull. Neg. # 2005-35301 is color digital closer view of top of skull. Neg. #2005-35302 is color digital of top of skull. Illus. Fig. 11.10, p. 135 and discussed p. 135 in Kreamer, Christine Mullen, and Sarah Adams. 2007. Inscribing meaning writing and graphic systems in African art. [Washington, D.C.]: Smithsonian, National Museum of African Art. Identified there as chimpanzee skull, possibly Liberia, late 19th century, inscribed with Arabic or pseudo-Arabic writing and talismanic square.
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 66 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the African Tribes (Bantu)".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Liberia (not certain), Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Mandingo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 028346
label: USNM Number
content: E168878-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fetish
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 26 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 20 cm