Standing Female 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: PALE BROWN FEMALE FIGURE WITH HANDS ON HIPS; ROUGHLY CARVED WITH FACE AND BREASTS; INCISED SMALL LINES UP ARMS AND DOWN BREASTBONE; SMALL DAUB OF GREEN PAINT ON RIGHT FOOT. NOTE: WASHKUK ALSO SPELT WASKUK. WASHKUK CULTURE CLOSELY RELATED TO KWOMA CULTURE. (SEE GEWERTA, "SEPIK RIVER SOCIETIES", 1983.) MCGHEE'S LABEL READS "LONGJVINJAM MERI." 'MERI' MEANS WOMEN IN TOK PISIN (PIDGIN ENGLISH). (SUSANNA KELLY, CATALOGUER, 1994.)
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
culture: label: Culture
content: Washkuk
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 390923
label: USNM Number
content: E427110-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 110 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 28 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 17 cm