Polychromed Standing Nude Female Figure (Rhythm Pounder)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1992
label: Collection Date
content: 1966
name: label: Donor Name
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG. VETTED BY WILLIAM FAGG & LEON SIROTO FOR HMSG. FAGG DETERMINED THAT THIS WAS AN IMITATION OF A SENUFO PIECE. SIROTO CONSIDERED IT TO BE "NOT GOOD." JH PURCHASED AT J J KLEJMAN GALLERY IN NEW YORK IN 6/13/55. WAS EXHIBITED AT GREENWICH LIBRARY IN GREENWICH, CT IN MAY 7, 1967 TO (?) CARVED FROM 1 PIECE, WOODEN FIGURE HAS CYLINDRICAL BASE INSERTED INTO SEPARATE BLACK, RECTANGULAR WOODEN BASE. DEPICTS STANDING NUDE WOMAN W/ OVAL HEAD & A CRESTED HAIRSTYLE W/ THE FRONT PART JUTTING FORWARD. HAS CURVED BROWS, SLITTED EYES, STRAIGHT NOSE, PROTRUDING MOUTH, & BIG ROUND EARS. FACE COVERED W/ INCISED SCARIFICATION MARKS, PAINTED IN WHITE AND ORANGE. ELONGATED TORSO HAS HIGH BREASTS, PROTRUDING NAVEL, AND GENITAL DETAILS. SLENDER ARMS ARE AT SIDES, HANDS PLACED ON THIGHS. SLENDER LEGS SLIGHTLY APART AND CUT OFF AT ANKLES. TORSO AND BACK HAVE INCISED AND PAINTED SCARIFICATION MARKS IN ORANGE AND WHITE. CONDITION: BASE HAS SEVERAL SPLITS LENGTHWISE. SPLIT ALONG LEFT SIDE OF HEAD.
label: Notes
content: SI ARCHIVES ACC. 86-136, BOX 1
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 May 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Côte d'Ivoire (not certain), Africa (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Senufo (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: E428195-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sculpture
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 201 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 19.5 cm
label: Height - W/base
content: 18 cm