Figure W/ Moveable Parts
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1992
label: Collection Date
content: 1986
name: label: Donor Name
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG. CARVED WOODEN FIGURE HAS LONG HEAD AND NECK. HEAD IS ROUNDED AT TOP, CARVED EARS, LONG, STRAIGHT NOSE, RECESSED CHEEKS, RAISED LINE FOR MOUTH. EYES ARE METAL DISKS NAILED TO SURFACE. A GROOVE RUNS ALONG OUTLINE OF FACE W/ FIBER BITS STICKING OUT, NECK HAS PROTRUSION (REPRESENTING ADAM'S APPLE ?) BASE OF NECK IS SQUARE W/ 2 MOVEABLE, RECTANGULAR ATTACHMENTS NAILED TO EITHER SIDE. APPENDAGES ARE ROUNDED AT ENDS AND HAVE HOLES BORED THROUGH LENGTH. LABEL "22" AND NUMBERED "S.31677." CONDITION: RUSTED NAILS, METAL DISKS COVERED W/ WHITE ENCRUSTATIONS. TRACES OF BLUE PIGMENT ON MOUTH. HEAD & NECK PAINTED W/ REDDISH PIGMENT (?)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 May 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Africa (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: E428158-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sculpture
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 58 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 15.7 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 15.5 cm