Staff W/ Seated Woman
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1992
label: Collection Date
content: 1966
name: label: Donor Name
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG. VETTED BY LUIS SIROTO, WHO DETERMINED FIGURE WAS FEMALE, NOT MALE AS ATTRIBUTED BY GALERIE KAMER. JH PURCHASED FROM GALERIE KAMER OF NEW YORK ON 7/13/63. LONG, THIN CYLINDRICAL STAFF HAS ROUNDED END AND FINIAL AT OTHER END. ABOUT 36 CM DOWN FROM THE FINIAL, 2 CURLIQUES CURVE UPWARD AND END IN KNOBS. FINIAL DEPICTS SEATED WOMAN BALANCING ROUND, FLARED SHALLOW BASKET (?) ON HEAD. TASSELS (?) DANGLE FROM BASE OF BASKET. HAS ROUND EYES, RAISED MOUTH, AND SCULPTED EARS. ELONGATED BODY HAS DROOPING BREASTS AND PROTRUDING NAVEL. THIN ARMS ARE CLOSE TO SIDES, HANDS EXTEND FORWARD. WEARS BRACELETS. SITS ON ROUND STOOL. SHORT LEGS. LABELS "SF.66.19" AND "S.63.76."
label: Notes
content: SI ARCHIVES ACC. 86-136, BOX 1
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 May 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Côte d'Ivoire (not certain), Africa (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Senufo (?)
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: E428202-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Staff
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 103 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 13 cm
label: Height - W/stand
content: 10 cm