Figurine
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Sep 1986
label: Collection Date
content: 1969 to 1971
name: label: Collector
content: Robert B. Keating
label: Donor Name
content: Robert B. Keating
notes: label: Notes
content: FETISH FIGURE OF WOOD. MALE, ON OVAL BASE; NO FEET CARVED. LEGS BENT AT KNEES, ARMS BENT AT ELBOWS (NO HANDS CARVED), VERY PROTUBERANT ABDOMEN WITH COPPER STUD SET IN NAVEL. "COFFEE-BEAN" EYES; FLAT TRIANGULAR NOSE; RECUMBENT "FIGURE-8" PROTUBERANT MOUTH. THREE BRASS STUDS ON FOREHEAD; ONE ON EACH CHEEK; AND ONE AT TIP OF NOSE. METAL RING AROUND NECK WITH SEED-POD PENDANT. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE SONGYE FETISHES SEE: JOSEPH CORNET,ART DE L'AFRIQUE AU PAYS DU FLEUVE ZAIRE, P. 238- 249.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Sep 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Songye
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 356698
label: USNM Number
content: E422892-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 28.3 cm