Carved Wooden Right Door Panel
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Nov 1998
label: Collection Date
content: 1973
name: label: Collector
content: Frank Graves
label: Donor Name
content: Frank Graves
notes: label: Notes
content: RIGHT DOOR PANEL, MADE OF CARVED WOOD. CENTRAL RECESS IS BORDERED ON TOP, BOTTOM & RIGHT SIDE with CARVED CHECKERBOARD PATTERN. ON LEFT LONG SIDE, TOWARD CENTER IS SMALLER PANEL DECORATED SAME WAY (FOR ATTACHING DOORKNOB ?) PANEL IS SEPARATED INTO 3 TIERS OF DESIGN DEPICTING THEME OF LABOR WITH STYLIZED FIGURES. FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, TOP TIER DEPICTS 3 MEN MOVING LOGS WITH TREE TRUNKS IN BACKGROUND, A STACK OF LOGS IN FOREGROUND. MIDDLE TIER DEPICTS 3 FIGURES, A MAN WITH A VESSEL ON HIS HEAD, A WOMAN WITH A BABY AT HER BREAST, AND A WOMAN POURING INTO A VESSEL. BOTTOM TIER DEPICTS FIGURES OF MEN, WOMEN, & CHILDREN SURROUNDING A NUT-LADEN TREE. SOME WOMEN CARRY BASKETS ON THEIR HEADS. CARVED BY RICHARD AIMUADASU OF BENIN CITY IN 1973. THE DONOR, FRANK GRAVES, PURCHASED THE DOORS FROM THE ARTIST IN 1973. Left door is Catalogue No. E428316.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Nov 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Benin City, Nigeria, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Nigerian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416169
label: USNM Number
content: E428317-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Door
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 213 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 88.5 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 4.5 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: 42.2 kg