Ancestral Board "Gope"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Jan 1987
label: Collection Date
content: 1966
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Thomas Schultz-Westrum
label: Donor Name
content: Evelyn J. Hall
notes: label: Notes
content: RELIEF SURFACE DISTURBED BY WEATHERING-BOARD IN POOR CONDITION, MOST OF RELIEF ORNAMENTED SURFACE WORN AWAY. OBLONG TAPERING TO FOOT. CONVEX BACK. HOLE PIERCED AT TOP-SUSPENSION. APPEARANCE OF FACE. BORDER OF SERIES OF SAW-TOOTH WITH FOOT SECTION IN LINEAR SYMMETRICAL LINES. FAINT TRACES OF PAINT-RED, WHITE AND BLACK BACK SURFACE PRODUCED BY CHARRING. MEMORIAL BOARD FOR REVERED ANCESTOR, HUNG OR PROPPED UP EN MASSE INSIDE MEN'S LONG HOUSES. TECH.: TWO DIMENSIONAL LOW RELIEF (SHALLOW) RIDGED LINES PROVIDES RELIEF FORM. ONE SIDE ONLY.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Wowobo Village, Gope Area (Inland), New Guinea / Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 358974
label: USNM Number
content: E423709-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Board
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 154.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 20.5 cm
label: Unknown - Thickness
content: 3 cm