Block of Wood Used in Woodcarving
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Sep 2001
name: label: Donor Name
content: Lamidi O. Fakeye
notes: label: Notes
content: Block of mahogany ("oroo" in Yoruba) wood. The carver, Lamidi Fakeye, cut this block to size using a power saw, though he sometimes uses an adze to cut wood to size. There are saw marks visible on the block, but it is otherwise uncarved.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ife, Nigeria, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yoruba
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2019778
label: USNM Number
content: E431411-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 30.8 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 9.2 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 7.5 cm