Figurine
- Museum number:
- 5-12902
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050012902
- Alternate number:
- B-2985 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.3023
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- baboon figurine, red-stained wood; squatting baboon on oval pedestal; teeth indicated by relief carving both sides of elongated mouth; h. 54 cm.
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Collection place:
- Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Africa; Nigeria; Oyo; Yoruba
- Culture or time period:
- Yoruba
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Collection date:
- 1960
- Materials:
- Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Figurines
- Function:
- 5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
- Accession date:
- December 14, 1973
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- height 54 centimeters
- Images:
-
- Legacy documentation:
-