Carved Image
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Nov 1899
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Samuel P. Verner
label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Samuel P. Verner
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "WOODEN IMAGE REPRESENTING A SEATED FIGURE, HEAT RESTING ON HANDS. IN STATE OF GREAT EMACIATION. LOAN: MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 1/4/71. "HEADREST IN THE FORM OF A SQUATTING HUMAN FIGURE, SO-CALLED "DYSENTERY FIGURE." TRIBE PROBABLY BENA LULUA." 204378. REFS.: 1) COART, E. AND A. DE HAULLEVILLE "NOTES ANALYTIQUES SUR LES COLLECTIONS ETHNOGRAPHIQUES"... T.I, FASC. II, P1. XL, FIGS. 527, 528. BRUSSELS, 1906. (ANNALES DU MUSEE DU CONGO BELGE). 2) SCHMALENBACH, W. "AFRICAN ART" (BASEL, 1954), FIG. 106" G.D.G. 1970."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Sep 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kasai River (upper), Democratic Republic of the Congo (not certain) / Angola (not certain), Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Luluwa
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035839
label: USNM Number
content: E204378-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Carving
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 21.6 cm