Idol - Fetish Dance
date: label: Accession Date
content: 13 Jun 1890
label: Collection Date
content: Oct 1889 to 6 Feb 1890
name: label: Collector
content: William H. Brown
label: Donor Name
content: William H. Brown
label: Expedition
content: Eclipse Expedition
label: Vessel
content: Pensacola
notes: label: Notes
content: Wooden post, top carved into human face with short neck; from "shoulders" down, base covered with grass fringe. No arms or legs. **This may be a Hunter's Shrine figure, from the Yoruba; see "Man", December, 1959, #334-335.
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 56 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Africans (Musical)".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: West, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yoruba (?)
label: Culture
content: Ashanti (Asante) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 023272
label: USNM Number
content: E151127-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure