Bellows
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1992
label: Collection Date
content: 1986
name: label: Donor Name
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG. CARVED WOODEN BELLOWS HAS CYLINDRICAL HANDLE, W/ ONE END HAVING TWIN BLOW HOLES, & THE OTHER END TOP W/ CARVED HEAD. MIDWAY OF HANDLE ARE TWO BOWLS ON EITHER SIDE. TOP OF HANDLE HAS GROOVE RUNNING LENGTHWISE FROM BLOW HOLES END TO MIDWAY. BOWLS HAVE HOLES LEADING FROM THE BLOW CHANNELS. BELOW CARVED HEAD IS HOLE PIERCED THROUGH HANDLE WIDTH W/ A KNOTTED COTTON STRING. LOW-RELIEF OVAL HEAD HAS HEARTSHAPED BROWS, SLITTED ALMOND-SHAPED EYES, THIN NOSE, SMALL MOUTH, & TRIANGULAR DEPRESSIONS FOR EARS. LABEL "S319.77" CONDITION: DUSTY, SPALLING TOP LAYER, INSECT CASINGS, USED APPEARANCE.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 May 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Democratic Republic of the Congo (not certain), Africa (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Luba (?)
label: Culture
content: (Ba Luba) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: E428154-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bellows
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 47.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 32.5 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 7 cm