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date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Oct 1985
label: Collection Date
content: Early 1900's
name: label: Collector
content: Miguel Covarrubias
label: Collector
content: Rosa Covarrubias
label: Donor Name
content: Mr. Thomas J. Williams
notes: label: Notes
content: FRAGMENT OF NARRATIVE CLOTH PAINTING IN LINEAR DESIGN OF MYTHICAL ORIGIN. TWO BLACK DOGS WITH GAPING JAWS AND TWO OTHER DEMONIC FIGURES OF WOMEN WITH BULGING EYES AND BULBOUS NOSES DOMINATE THE SCENE PAINTED AGAINST WHITE BACKGROUND. PREDOMINANTLY IN BLACK AND RED WITH ADDED COLORING OF BLUE, YELLOW, AND BROWN. BACKGROUND DECORATION WITH CLOUDS, FLOWERING TREES, AND OTHER SYM- BOLS. USED FOR DECORATION OF TEMPLE AND OTHER STRUCTURES ON RITUAL ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED WITH WITCHCRAFT. LARGE WOLFLIKE DOGS SYMBOLIZE POWER AND FORCE. UNMOUNTED. LATE 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY. REF.:CELEBRATION:A WORLD OF ART AND RITUAL (EXHIBIT CATALOG). SI PRESS, 1982,P.50; DONOR'S COLLECTION INFORMATION SHEETS.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Java, Indonesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Javanese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 360964
label: USNM Number
content: E422938-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Scroll
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 29 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 73 cm