Wooden Statuette
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1877
name: label: Donor Name
content: Prof William M. Gabb
notes: label: Notes
content: NEGATIVE NUMBERS FOR IMAGES AVAILABLE OF ARTIFACT: 42958, 42958A, 74-10129 THRU -10151 AND 74-11365 THRU -11388; ALL BLACK AND WHITE FORMAT. From card: "See: 25th Ann. Rep't, Bur. Amer. Ethnol., p. 201, Pl. XCI. Loaned to the Museo del Hombre Dominicano January 14, 1975." A zemi or cemí. Illustrated Fig. 34, p. 113 in Keegan, William F., and Lisabeth A. Carlson. 2008. Talking Taino: essays on Caribbean natural history from a native perspective. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, and identified there as wooden statue of the dog shaped deity of the Taino called Opiyelguobirán, who carried spirits to the world of the dead.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Dominican Republic, Caribbean
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Prehistoric
label: Culture
content: Taino (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005890
label: USNM Number
content: A42663-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure