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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
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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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
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Media Restricted
| 99-12-10/53094.1 | Effigy of woman with labret |
Figurine
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North America
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| 10-47-10/76826 | Mask representing Djilakons |
Mask
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Canada
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Media Restricted
| 99-12-10/53093 | Wooden effigy of woman with labret |
Figurine
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North America
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| 40-65-50/5113 | Wood carving of a woman |
Figurine
Raw Material |
Africa
| |
| 98-4-10/51671 | Mask |
Mask
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North America
| |
| 2004.24.34297 | Wooden effigy of woman with labret |
Alaska
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| 995-29-10/73518 | Transformation mask |
Mask
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North America
| |
| 88-51-10/50501 | Wooden labret |
Labret
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Alaska
| |
| 88-51-10/50483 | Wooden mask |
Mask
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Queen Charlotte Islands
| |
| 2004.24.32514 | Wooden effigies |
North America
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| 87-18-10/41093 | Labret |
Labret
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Queen Charlotte Islands
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| 2004.24.30060 | wooden effigy of women with labret |
North America
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