Yina Carving
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Apr 1994
label: Collection Date
content: 1970's
name: label: Collector
content: George C. McGhee
label: Donor Name
content: George C. McGhee
notes: label: Notes
content: CARVED WOOD PIECE IN FIVE SECTIONS; ENTIRE PIECE HAS BEEN DARKENED TO A DULL BLACK AND THEN PIGMENTED WITH DESIGNS IN DULL TAN AND OCHRE COLORS; CARVED TOTEMIC HEAD IN EACH SECTION. DAMAGE: PIECE HAS SERIOUS CRACKS IN EACH OF THE FIVE SECTIONS. SECTION ONE: 1.) TOP OF HEAD ON RIGHT 17 CM. LONG THIN CRACK; 2.) 20 CM. CRACK IN MIDDLE OF CHIN; 3.) 8 CM. CRACK UNDER CHIN AT LEFT; 4.) 7 CM. CRACK UNDER CHIN AT RIGHT. SECTION TWO: 1.) 11 CM. CRACK, MIDDLE NEXT TO LEFT EYE; 2.)31 CM. CRACK IN MIDDLE OF HOOK EXTENDING TO THE MIDDLE OF THE THIRD SECTION; 3.)20 CM. CRACK TO RIGHT OF HOOK. SECTION THREE: 1. 29 CM. CRACK RIGHT OF HOOK DOWN THROUGH THE EYE OF SECTION 4; 2.) 6.5 CM. CRACK ABOVE THE NOSE, TO THE RIGHT. NOTE: WASHKUK ALSO SPELT WASKUK. WASHKUK CULTURE CLOSELY RELATED TO KWOMA CULTURE. (SEE GEWERTZ "SEPIK SOCIEITES", 1983.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sepik River (Middle), New Guinea / East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Washkuk
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 390923
label: USNM Number
content: E427106-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Carving
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 224 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 28 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 22 cm