Figurine
date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 May 1982
label: Collection Date
content: 1970 to 1971
name: label: Collector
content: Robert B. Keating
label: Donor Name
content: Robert B. Keating
notes: label: Notes
content: WOOD, POLYCHROME (WHITE, YELLOW, RED, BLACK). "HANGING FIGURE-INDICATES A PERSON WHO WAS STRANGLED AGAINST A TREE FOR BETRAYING SECRETS OF THE LILWA SOCIETY...WITHOUT CRESTED HEAD, BUT WITH FLATTENED ABDOMEN IN RIGID RATHER THAN INCLINED POSTURE." NATIVE MEND ON BROKEN RIGHT ARM. ACQUIRED BY DONOR IN KINSHASA, ZAIRE.REFER: ROUVROY, V.: "LE 'LILWA'", CONGO (REVUE GENERALE DE LA CONGO BELGE), MAY 1929, VOL.I, NO. 5: 783-797.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Mbole
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 336966
label: USNM Number
content: E421472-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 45 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 11 cm