Grave Marker
| 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:
| 44 Eyes in a Museum Storeroom ( Dec 2000 - 2001) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| Imagine Africa with the Penn Museum (18 Sep 2011) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| African Sculpture from the University Museum (22 Nov 1986 - 08 Feb 1987) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| 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 - 11 Sep 2018) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| African Gallery (1990 - Aug 1995) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Catalogue, Exhibition] University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Apr 2000. 44 Celebrity Eyes in a Museum Storeroom.. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. 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 |
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