Fetish God
date: label: Accession Date
content: 13 Apr 1900
name: label: Donor Name
content: C G. Sloan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "FETISH GOD CARVED OUT OF WOOD. PAINTED WHITE AND BLACK. GRASS APRON AROUND WAIST. "TAKEN FROM THE PALACE OF THE KING OF BENIN. THIS IMAGE WAS THE ONE THAT THE KING WORSHIPPED, AND AT CERTAIN CHANGES OF THE NEIGHBORING TRIBES ASSEMBLES TO WORSHIP IT. THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL WARS OVER IT AND IN ONE IT WAS CAPTURED BY OTHER TRIBES, BUT IT WAS RESTORED TO THE KING AGAIN. THE STEAMER THAT BROUGHT IT HOME WAS WRECKED BUT THE CAPTAIN SAVED AND BROUGHT IT WITH HIM IN A SMALL BOAT." THIS SPECIMEN IS MADE OF WOOD PECULIAR TO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA AND STANDS ABOUT 3 FT. HIGH. THE FOREGOING IDENTIFICATION IS EXTREMELY DOUBTFUL-G.D.G. REF. TALBOT, P. A. LIFE IN SOUTHERN NIGERIA, CHAP. XIV AND P1. OPP. P. 188. BY COMPARISON WITH ILLUSTRATIONS, THIS SPECIMEN IS SURELY IBIBIO, FROM SOUTHEASTERN NIGERIA, AND NOT FROM BENIN. G.D.G. REPAIRS MADE MAY 5, 1962: RIGHT ARM REINFORCED AND GLUED, RIGHT FOOT REGLUED, LEFT FOOT REGLUED; RESTORED PORTION OF RIMON HEAD, LEFT LARGE TOE, AND ABOUT 1/3 OF REAR PORTION OF LEFT FOOT. CLEANED ANDRESTORED; SEE RESTORATION RECORD #72, 3/12/64."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jun 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: South, Nigeria, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ibibio
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 036348
label: USNM Number
content: E204929-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fetish