Figures

Museum number:

5-12978

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Alternate number:

B-1204 (previous number (Bascom’s number))

Accession number:

Acc.3100

Object count:

1

Description:

Cast brass figures: Two women, facing each other, pounding mortar. Purchased, 1967, #1038, $110.00 + $5.50 tax. H = 17.0 cm

Donor:

Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom

Collection place:

Liberia

Verbatim coll. place:

West Africa, Liberia, Kran (or Dan); Purchased at auction from the estate of John T. Coulthard

Culture or time period:

Kran

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Ground stone and Mortars (grinding tools)

Function:

5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions

Accession date:

December 16, 1974

Department:

Africa (except Ancient Egypt)

Comment:

Illustrated: Bascom, 1973:31; PAHMA Storage Loc: V-30-10

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 S1986-1987 #3: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (August 13, 1986–June 1, 1987)

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