Male Figure
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1992
label: Collection Date
content: 1959
name: label: Donor Name
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
notes: label: Notes
content: Provenience undocumented. Joseph Hirshhorn purchased from Aaron Furman Gallery of NY in 5/16/59. Identification provided by Hirshhorn Museum (HMSG). Vetted by William Fagg & Leon Siroto. Fagg commented that this piece was not Benin City but provincial. SI Archives records listed as "tada." Siroto disagreed & thought the piece to be more "peripheral Benin;" greasy, soapstone-like stone could mean it was from Sierra Leone. Description: reddish-brown stylized terracotta standing figure with round head, no neck, hunched body, cut off at the hip. Wears curved band with incised design (hair or hat ?) Over high forehead, round eyes, wide nose & lips, sculpted ears. Arms bent at elbows, hands placed over rounded belly. Has small breasts & incised scarification pattern of lines & long ovals over torso. Top of head has embedded dowel ? Bottom is numbered with label "s.59.106." Condition: spalling of top layer all over; front of base has major loss, crumbling, and protruding end of metal dowel ?
label: Notes
content: SI Archives acc. 86-136, box 1
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 May 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Edo State / Kingdom of Benin, Nigeria, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Edo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: E428164-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sculpture
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 16 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 14 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 34 cm