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Object Number 99-12-10/53094
Display Title Effigy of woman with labret
Descriptions
Object Description Wooden effigy of woman with labret; scuptured in hardwood (possibly maple), depicting a nude female wearing an oval labret. The smoothly painted bidy with well-defined sagging breasts, is unpainted. Red paint on hands, ears, feet and mouth. bilateral face painting, red on one side; green on other, with cross-hatched motif along temples. Human hair fastened to head with resin, parted in center with vegetal fiber twine. Compared with the free-flowing curves of low and high relief carving, the treatment of this three-dimensional figure is somewhat restrained. The body itself if rendered naturalistically, combined with a curiously stiff representation of arms and legs and a rather stylized rendering of the face. Compare with other free-standing figures, such as "shaman's dolls" and argillite carvings.
Inventory Description Wooden female figurine wearing mask, painted, with hair.
Classification
  • Figurine
Department Ethnographic
Date 1820-1829
Artist Kaigani Master of the Labret Woman
Culture
  • Tlingit
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Additional Geographic Terms Northwest Coast
Materials Wood, Human hair, Resin, Plant fiber, Pigment
Dimensions Overall: 45.72 x 13.97 x 10.16 cm (18 x 5 1/2 x 4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 99-12-10/53094
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Collector Dr. Moore (?)
Intermediary Boston Museum
Donor David Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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