Puppet: "Banikono" (River bird)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Jul 1998
label: Collection Date
content: 1988
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Mary Jo Arnoldi
label: Donor Name
content: Bafing Kane
notes: label: Notes
content: River bird puppet with articulated mouth/beak, whose mechanism is operated by a pulling a rope. Beak is prevented from moving by a plastic band wrapped under lower half of beak and secured to the rest of puppet with nails. Bird's head patterned in red, white, black, silver and yellow paints. Hole at the base of bird's head, intended for a rod. Carved ridge along beak. Unpainted rectangular indentation with two holes at top of bird's head indicates something was probably previously attached there.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kounzana, Mali, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Bamana (Bambara)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 387038
label: USNM Number
content: E428653-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Puppet
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 90 cm
label: Width
content: 18.5 cm
label: Height
content: 18.5 cm