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Object Number
2004.29.12429
Display Title
Wooden statuette of a medicine man
Descriptions
Object Description
written on board: "Africa / French Congo / Fetish-statuette of a / medicine-man of / sculptured wood, brown. / He is squatting, his stomach / ornamented with a globe of latex, / & holding a piece of fruit in his raised hands."
Department
Photographic
Culture
- African
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
French Congo
Dimensions
Overall: 15.875 × 5.715 cm (6 1/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004.29.12437 | Wooden statuette of person holding a leather bottle for medicine |
French Congo
| ||
| 2004.29.12434 | Wooden statuette of a woman kneeling and wearing a crecent-like headdress |
Congo
| ||
| 2004.29.12436 | Wooden statuette of woman with baby |
Congo
| ||
| 2004.29.12425 | Carved anthropomorphic ivory statuette |
French Congo
| ||
| 2004.29.12439 | Wooden statuette of two human forms placed back to back with conical hat of latex |
Congo
| ||
| 2004.29.12424 | Carved wooden statuette |
French Congo
| ||
| 2004.29.12423 | Carved wooden statuette |
French Congo
| ||
| 2004.29.22925 | Carved and painted wooden statuette |
New Guinea
| ||
| 2004.29.12773 | Wooden statuette of a woman |
Guinea
| ||
| 2004.29.12438 | Wooden statuette of a woman carrying relics in a glazed box |
Congo
| ||
| 2001.29.17018 | "Gao Medicine" sitting, smoking a cigarette and holding an arrow, with arrows drying on a log near him |
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
| ||
| 2004.29.12772 | Wooden statuette of a woman |
Guinea
|