Carved Wooden Figure, "Nuchu"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Mar 1959
label: Collection Date
content: 1915 to 1920
name: label: Donor Name
content: William V. Cash
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Full length, standing, sexless figure, carved in the round but in flat plains, nude except for short skirt, to the side of which are joined the hands. Face has the extra long pointed nose and rest is sketchy. Dark brown in color, except cheeks which are red, and have white eyes. Taken from a "God-House" where many are kept (most of more modern type.) Used in therapeutic ceremonies. Body has split down the front."
label: Notes
content: Two photos from William V. Cash dated Sept. 10, 1917 are in the collection of the National Anthropological Archives, citation: DOE So Amer: Panama: Cuna: NM 222130 04283200, 04283300, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Photos show wooden figures inside a Kuna "God House," with the notation that one figure from this house was donated to NMNH by Cash. Catalogue number E397292 would probably to be the figure in question.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Jul 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: San Blas, Panama, Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kuna (Guna)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 222130
label: USNM Number
content: E397292-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure