Magamaog Statuette
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Aug 1968
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mr. Province M. Henry
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Stylized Magamaog figure of wood and horn. Wooden "body" of sub-triangular outline incised front and back with two encircling bands of opposed parallel diagonal lines between which is a band of Magamaog figures. Legs are hewn from water buffalo horns. Perforation at top of body carries a cord. Collector says: "Probably hung in the house as a sort of shaman ... A traditional variant representation of Magamaog, a legendary Yami ancestral figure ... a rare example in ... size and style ... may date back as far as the 19th century. See Kano and Segawa, 1956, p. 426."
label: Notes
content: Magamaog is a culture hero who taught the Yami/Tao the arts of boat-building and agriculture. - "A Look Back: Art of the Austronesians: The Legacy of Indo-Pacific Voyaging" Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA, https://fowler.ucla.edu/a-look-back-art-of-the-austronesians-the-legacy-of-indo-pacific-voyaging/ , retrieved 5 April 2013.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Nov 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Taiwan, China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yami (Tao)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 258290
label: USNM Number
content: E409921-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure