Statue
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Nov 1990
label: Collection Date
content: 1959 to 1975
name: label: Collector
content: Prof David Kadane
label: Collector
content: Mrs. David Kadane
label: Donor Name
content: Prof David Kadane
notes: label: Notes
content: MADE FOR TOURIST MARKET; HEAVY SCULPTURE OF LARGE HUMAN MALE HEAD; CARVED HAIR; FACE DECORATED AS IF SCARRED OR TATOOED. A SECOND, SMALLER HEAD JUTS OUT FROM CHIN OF FIRST FIGURE, INVERTED, WITH BODY CURVED AROUND NECK OF MAIN FIGURE. APPRAISER'S COMMENTS: "LARGE BUST WITH FIGURE MADE FROM EBONY LOG WITH SAP-WOOD LEFT ON BASE AND AT BACK...MAIN FIGURE(S) FACE HAS FULL CICATRIZING, IN RAISED RELIEF. LIP PLUG AND NOSE NAIL ARE ALL FROM THE SAME PIECE OF WOOD. FULL FIGURE IS IN SMALLER SCALE AND CURLED AROUND NECK OF LARGE FIGURE. PIECE PROBABLY REPRESENTS RITUAL EMBRACING OF ANCESTRAL HEAD. WOOD IS DARK WITH ATTRACTIVE GRAIN. BY THOMAS VALENTINO." REFERENCES: (SEE ABOVE.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Nov 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Makonde
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 387040
label: USNM Number
content: E425223-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Statue
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 51 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 29 cm