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Carrying Stick
| Object Number: | 29-59-181 |
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Masongo Ambundu |
| Provenience: | Angola |
| Section: | African |
| Materials: | Wood |
| Length: | 62 cm |
| Credit Line: | Purchased from Henry C. Mercer, 1927 |
| Other Number: | 265 - Field No SF 22570 - Other Number |
Description
Round wooden stick; human head with very fine features beautifully carved. Headdress (or hair?) extends in a point out the back. The body just below the head is carved into 5 triangles on three of which human faces are represented.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Evocative Images: African Sculpture from the University Museum (Traveling version of "African Sculpture from the University Museum") ( Sep 1988 - Apr 1990) | View Objects in Exhibition | |
| African Gallery ( Aug 1995) | View Objects in Exhibition | |
| African Sculpture from the University Museum (22 Nov 1986 - 08 Feb 1987) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Book] Quick, Jennifer. 2004. Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. ed. 1st. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 25 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation | |
| [Catalogue] Wardwell, Allen. 1986. African Sculpture from the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 138-139 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation | |
| [Article] Dougherty, Frank. 21 Nov 1986. African Sculpture, in Philadelphia Daily News.. pg. 1-15 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 1 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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