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date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 May 1982
label: Collection Date
content: 1969 to 1970
name: label: Collector
content: Robert B. Keating
label: Donor Name
content: Robert B. Keating
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "WOODEN STANDING FIGURE; ARMS A-KIMBO, SPREAD LEGS. TURRET TYPE HEADDRESS BOUND IN SNAKESKIN. CURVED HORN (FILLED WITH MAGICAL MATERIAL) ATTACHED TO TOP OF HEADDRESS. SNAKESKIN ENCIRCLES NECK & WAIST. NECKLACE: A GOURD FRAGMENT PENDANT & 2 WHITE GLASS BEADS STRUNG ON TWISTED FIBRE CORD. SKIRT WITH FRINGE OF SEED PODS (SOME MISSING); SMALL POINTED HORN FILLED WITH MAGICAL MATERIALS, SEALED WITH GUM & COWRIE SHELL, TUCKED INTO SNAKESKIN BELT. "VERY RARE." ASKED TO GIVE AN OPINION OF THIS FIGURE BASED UPON PHOTOGRAPHS SUBMITTED TO HER, DR. H. VAN GELUWE OF THE MUSEE ROYALE DE L'AFRIQUE CENTRALE TERVUREN, WROTE AS FOLLOWS: "OWING TO ITS HYBRID FEATURE (MIXTURE OF SONGYE-LUBA STYLISTIC ELEMENTS), THE CARVING HAS NO CONNECTION WITH THE TRADITIONAL AND TYPICAL NSAPOSAPO SCULPTURE. CONSIDERING ALSO THE 'ADDED' MATERIALS, I.E., SNAKEHIDE, FRUIT SHELLS, HORN, ETC., THIS CARVING HAS TO BEEN CLASSIFIED AMONG THE PRODUCTION ON BEHALF OF THE SALE TO EUROPEANS AND OTHER TOURISTS, SOME 20 YEARS AGO, IN THE N. E. KASAI." (LETTER FROM DR. VAN GELUWE TO DR. G. D. GIBSON, MARCH 1980.)"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Kananga (near), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Zapo-Zap
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 336966
label: USNM Number
content: E420079-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fetish Figure