Bronze Processional Crucifix
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Nov 1998
label: Collection Date
content: Not Given
name: label: Donor Name
content: Ernst Anspach
notes: label: Notes
content: CAST BRONZE CRUCIFIX HAS STYLIZED, RAISED FIGURE OF CHRIST. EACH END OF CROSS' ARMS IS POINTED AND PERFORATED. LOWER PART OF THE CROSS HAS 2 ADDITIONAL BARS, FORMING RIGHT ANGLES TO THE ROUND BASE. BOTTOM OF BASE IS HOLLOW W/ A HOLE THROUGH THE TOP & A HORIZONTAL BAR PROBABLY FOR INSERTING CRUCIFIX INTO A NICHED MOUNT. LABEL "1331" AT BOTTOM. ACCORDING TO DR. MARY JO ARNOLDI, CURATOR OF AFRICAN ETHNOLOGY, NMNH, THIS CRUCIFIX IS DATED TO THE MID-18TH CENTURY, MADE AND USED BY THE KONGO PEOPLES IN CHRISTIAN PROCESSION.
label: Notes
content: From African Voices exhibit: "Non-Christians appropriated this central emblem of the Christian faith as a symbol of chiefly power."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Oct 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kongo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416134
label: USNM Number
content: E428279-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cross
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 13 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 10 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 4.7 cm