Grave Marker - 62-4-1 | Collections

Object Number:	62-4-1
Current Location:	Collections Storage
Provenience:	Madagascar
Section:	African
Materials:	Wood
Length:	226.06 cm
Width:	21.908 cm
Depth:	13.335 cm
Credit Line:	Purchased from Peter Marks, 1962

Description

Wood weathered grey. Human figure standing on rectangular base and supporting on its head a flat post on the top of which are two birds; the post bears carved and cutout ornamentation in seven registers- a circle (at the top) and alternately two crescents and a diamond-shaped section enclosing a boxed X. Figure probably held something, now missing; right "hand" is an open ring; the ring which formed the left hand is broken.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

	African Gallery (1982 - 1986)	View Objects in Exhibition
	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
	Imagine Africa with the Penn Museum (18 Sep 2011)	View Objects in Exhibition
	44 Eyes in a Museum Storeroom ( Dec 2000 - 2001)	View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

	[Catalogue, Exhibition] University of Pennsylvania Museum. Apr 2000. 44 Celebrity Eyes in a Museum Storeroom.. University of Pennsylvania Museum. pg. 1-47 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 32-33	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: 144-145	View Objects related to this Actual Citation