Shogo or Tsogo axe with carved wooden figure; figure has white inset eyes. blade is mounted through mid-chest of figure, and is decorated at wide end with stamped dot pattern and small serations along bottom edge. wood figure acts as axe handle. Purchased at auction from estate of John T. Coulthard
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Verbatim coll. place:
Central Africa, Congo, Shogo or Tsogo (A-shogo)
Culture or time period:
Tsogo
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1967
Materials:
Metal and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Axes (tools) and Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 24.5 centimeters, width 6.5 centimeters, and length 35.7 centimeters
Comment:
Illustrated: Bascom, 1973:85Slide; PAHMA Storage Loc: V 3-Bascom-1
Loans:
S1968-1969 #39: Contra Costa College (November 18, 1968–December 27, 1968), S1968-1969 #87: College of Marin (April 3, 1969–May 2, 1969), S1969-1970 #32: Santa Rosa Junior College (October 24, 1969–October 31, 1969), and S1970-1971 #150: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (October 23, 1970–May 18, 1971)