FMNH 278010.nosub[1]

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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History-Ethnology | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 22-5 | Provenience: West Africa, Guinea-Bissau, Canhabague Island | People of Culture: Bidjagó | Object: Male Figure (Irã) | Material: Wood, goat hair, eggshell, reed (?), nails, cloth, tin, various unknown materials [asterisk] | Description: Male figure (Irã) carved from column of wood hollowed out in front with magical substances [asterisk] in lower half of cavity and held in by twisted reed circlet; crossbar near top of body with red cloth streamer tied on. Separated head attached to slot in back of body with reed ties; head has goat hair bears, tin corneas, nail pupils, cloth knobbed headdress topped with (over) | Dimensions (in cm.): H: 57.2 W: 13.7 D: 13.0 | Collection: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Strotz, 12/15/76. Collector, Michael J. Strotz, 1972-1976. | [LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | 278010 | Field No. 10 | Neg. No. | Acc. 3330 | [BACK] goat hair and red streamers; coil necklace; eggshell scattered over figure. (Collected by Michael Strotz, donor's son, September 1973.) (See Cat. and Coll. notes) | Cat. #278010. |
Catalog Number: 278010.nosub[1]
Description: figure
Materials: wood, hair; goat, eggshell, reed, metal, cloth, metal; tin
Cultural Attribution: Bidjago
Accession Number: [3330] Strotz, Robert H. and Mrs. (Gift)
Accession Year:
Other Numbers: 10
Collector/Source: Strotz, Robert H. and Mrs., Michael Strotz
EMu IRN: 1186868
GUID: 6b5f6a50-598e-4f52-a169-27663844436a

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