Carved Wooden Stilt-Rest
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MARQUESAS (DR. RALPH LINTON). LOANED TO RENWICK 11/12/81. RETURNED 8/1983. ILLUS.: P.100, PL.107, CELEBRATIONS CATALOGUE, SMITHSONIAN PRESS, 1982." Caption from Celebration catalogue identifies this a a stilt footrest and states: "Marquesan festivals often included races and battles on stilts. Competitors tried to knock their opponents off balance by levering their stilts out from under them. The footrests of the stilts were usually elaborately carved."
label: Notes
content: Dark brown/black wooden carved figure with knees bent and hands on stomach. Large headdress curves back (stilt support) to a straight section of wood. This section joins figure and extends down below it; it is undecorated. Figure is intricately carved with predominantly linear patterns.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Marquesas Islands, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Marquesan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3791-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stilt Step
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 32 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 6 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 10.3 cm