Male Standing Figure
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Apr 1994
label: Collection Date
content: 1970's
name: label: Collector
content: George C. McGhee
label: Donor Name
content: George C. McGhee
notes: label: Notes
content: CARVED THREE DIMENSIONAL MALE STANDING FIGURE ON HOOK BASE; ENTIRE PIECE HAS BEEN DARKENED AND PIGMENTED TO A DARK BROWN AND BLACK; CROWN IS EMBEDDED WITH THREE HORIZONTAL ROWS OF LARGE COWRIE SHELLS; ATTACHED TO THE CROWN IS A SEMI-CIRCULAR PIECE OF BAMBOO WITH CASSOWARY FEATHERS ON TOP OF THE CROWN; EXTENDED AND RAISED EYE CYLINDERS WITH INSET SHELLS (CONUS ?); CASSOWARY BONE THROUGH THE NOSE; CARVED RAISED TEETH AND MOUTH; CHEST HAS SUCCESSIVE CURVILINEAR INCISED CARVINGS; STRINGS OF CELLULOSE FIBER PIECES, SOME ADORNED WITH COWRIE SHELLS AROUND WRISTS, ANKLE, NECK AND THROUGH THREE HOLES IN EACH EAR; A TRIANGULAR WOVEN BASKETRY PIECE WITH FRINGE AND SHELL HANGS UNDER HIS STOMACH IN FRONT OF HIS PENIS.DAMAGE: INSECT (?) DAMAGE IN AREA ON CROWN IN THE WOOD; CASSOWARY FEATHERS COMING OFF OF CROWN; MEDIUM SIZED PLASTIC BAGS FULL OF CASSOWARY FEATHERS ATTACHED TO PIECE BY WHITE TAPE ON LEFT WRIST.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sepik River (middle) / Chambri Lakes, New Guinea / East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 390923
label: USNM Number
content: E427058-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 209 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 30 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 18 cm