Commemorative Post
date: label: Accession Date
content: 13 Apr 2011
label: Collection Date
content: 13 Apr 1974
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Marilyn Heldman
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Marilyn Heldman
notes: label: Notes
content: Heavy wooden post, carved into male figure. Very weathered, with deep cracks. Appears to have been painted originally, but almost all traces of the paint have worn away. Large figures are erected at the gates of Konso villages to commemorate local heroes (hunters and warriors) who have died, along with smaller figures representing their wives and slain enemies. The figures are allowed to weather and disintegrate over time, and then they are removed. This is a smaller male figure, possibly a slain enemy. Purchased by the donor in 1974 in Addis Ababa from Gelebu Assengogo, a Konso man who indicated that this piece was from Gochä, and could be as much as 150 years old. However, this date was not verified and is quite uncertain. This figure was purchased at the same time as catalog number E431981, a larger post from the same village.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Addis Ababa / Gochä, Ethiopia, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Konso
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2055747
label: USNM Number
content: E433003-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 13 cm
label: Width
content: 14 cm
label: Height
content: 96 cm