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Reliquary Figure
| Object Number: | 22222 |
| Current Location: | Collections storage |
| Culture: | Fang |
| Provenience: | Gabon |
| Section: | African |
| Materials: | Wood |
| Iconography: | Human |
| Height: | 77cm |
| Credit Line: | Gift of Thomas G. Morton, 1901 |
| Other Number | 11A - Other Number |
Description
Wood reliquary figure. Figures of this rtpe are attached to a bark box which contains the skulls and bones of clan ancestors. At the annual initiation ceremony into the ancestral cult they are removed and utilized as puppets above a palm thatch parition.
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 Sculpture from the University Museum (22 Nov 1986 - 08 Feb 1987) | View Objects in Exhibition | |
| African Negro Sculpture (1957 - 1957) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Catalogue] Wardwell, Allen. 1986. African Sculpture from the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. : Page/Fig./Plate: 81 | View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference | |
| [Article] Coon, Carleton S. & Plass, Margaret. 1957. African Negro Sculpture: A Walk Through the Gallery. The University Museum Bulletin. 21 (4) : Page/Fig./Plate: 57 | View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference | |
| [Catalogue] Plass, Margaret B. 1956. African Tribal Sculpture. : Page/Fig./Plate: 44 | View Objects related to this Bibliographic Reference |
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