Hook
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, DARKENED WOOD; COMPLEX THREE DIMENSIONAL HUMAN AND CROCODILE FORMS; HUMAN HEAD WITH INSET COWRIE SHELL EYES AND HUMAN BODY STANDING ON HOOK BASE; MATCHING CURVILINEAR SHAPES CARVED INTO HEAD AND BASE; UPSIDE DOWN CROCODILE WITH OVERSIZED HEAD AND CONUS EYES STRADDLES THE FRONT OF HUMAN BODY AND HAS A SMALL HUMAN(?) FIGURE CLENCHED HORIZONTALLY IN HIS MOUTH; TWO PARALLEL CROCODILES WITH COWRIE INSET EYES ARE MOUNTED ON EITHER SIDE OF THE LARGE STANDING HUMAN FIGURE BY WAY OF ATTACHING THEIR FOUR LEGS TO THE HUMAN'S ARMS; CROCODILE FORMS ARE VERY REALISTIC WITH INTRICATE HIDE CARVING.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sepik River (Middle), 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: E427148-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hook
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 129 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 32 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 11.5 cm