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date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Nov 1899
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Samuel P. Verner
label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Samuel P. Verner
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "STICK WITH HUMAN HEAD CARVED AT TOP BOUND WITH PALM CORD DYED WITH CAMWOOD. WM. FAGG 3-5-64 STATED THIS ITEM WAS NOT LUBA BUT PROBABLY CAME FROM FURTHER NORTH. IN HIS BOOK "PIONEERING IN CENTRAL AFRICA" (RICHMOND, 1903) ON PP. 311-312, VERNER MENTIONS BUYING A CARVED STICK SUCH AS THIS AT A TOWN IN THE VICINITY OF NDOMBE (THE MISSION STATION) IN KUBA COUNTRY."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Sep 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kasai River (upper), Democratic Republic of the Congo (not certain) / Angola (not certain), Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Bantu
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035839
label: USNM Number
content: E204445-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 30 cm