Ancestral Board "Gope"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Jan 1987
label: Collection Date
content: 1966
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Thomas Schultz-Westrum
label: Donor Name
content: Evelyn J. Hall
notes: label: Notes
content: POINTED ELLIPTICAL FORM, TAPERING AT BOTTOM TO RECTANGULAR TAIL AT BOTTOM. SECTION ON THE LEFT BELOW FACE HAS BEEN REMOVED AT THE TOP WAS HOLE BUT SECTION IS BROKEN. CENTRAL FIGURE IS FACE (EYES, NOSE,MOUTH) SURROUNDED BY SYMMETRICAL CURVILINEAR FORMS THREE CIRCLES WITH RAISED CENTRE, IN TAIL AT BOTTOM. COLOURS OF RED ANDWHITE WOULD HAVE BEEN ISOLATED-FAINT. BOARD IN DETERIORA-TED FORM WITH TRACES OF COLOUR SCHEME. BACK HAS BEEN PAINTED BLACK. MEMORIAL BOARD FOR REMOVED ANCESTOR, HUNG OR RROPPED UP ON MASSE INSIDE MEN'S LONG HOUSES. TECH.: TWO DIMENSIONAL LOW RELIEF, RIDGED LINES PROVIDES RELIEF FORM WITH SUNK GROUND BACK GROUND.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Meagoma-Karati Village, Gope Area, New Guinea / Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 358974
label: USNM Number
content: E423705-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Board
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 144 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 30 cm
label: Unknown - Thickness
content: 2.5 cm
label: Unknown - Thickness
content: 4 cm