Clay samples
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1985
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Flora S. Kaplan
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Flora S. Kaplan
notes: label: Notes
content: Three bags. 1) small folded piece of black wax 2) a round pat of solid clay 3) small pieces of red clay. Part of a set of clay samples given to the donor by Osaize Omodamwen. The clay is used at different stages of the lost wax casting process: making a core, modeling the wax on the core, covering the ovject with created with different clay and inserting runners,and then firing the piece. When cooled, the clay covering is broken open and removed from its fired clay shell, and the piece is scraped, polished, and finished. This particular sample is described by her as: "Samples (3) One of the mini-bags contains nine variegated sizes of clay for covering cores/wax models. Another, a flattened disc of the same but kneaded clay, and another small piece that is 'sample wax used to model' on a clay core. Mon. 12/17/1990, Benin City, O. Omodamwen"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Apr 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Benin City, Nigeria, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Edo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2052779
label: USNM Number
content: E434853-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Clay