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Chokwe

Divination Basket and Figures

Chokwe, 1900-1999

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Chokwe

Divination Basket and Figures

Chokwe, 1900-1999

Physical Qualities Fiber, metal, wood, gourd, skin, organic materials, 6.6 H x 27.9 Diam. cm. (2 5/8 x 11 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Allen Davis, Alexandria, Virginia
Object Number 2005.234
1 basket; 1 leather piece; 1 small gourd with tukula-encrusted sides; 2 wrapped bundles; 2 phallic forms in wood; 1 goud shell in genetalia form; 5 carved wooden humanoid figures; 1 ceramic fragment; 1 woven reed knot; 1 wooden guns stock (broken in two pieces); 1 wooden boomerang-shaped piece; 1 twig bundle wrapped in twine; 1 metal armlet; 1 metal shard; 1 antelope horn; 2 hooves; 1 simian claw and bones; 2 oblong carved wooden pieces; 1 three-legged carved wooden figure; 4 seed pods; 2 seed pod fragments; 2 round seed pods?; 1 small ball; 1 gourd shell piece; 1 oblong wooden piece.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2005; Allen Davis, Alexandria, Virginia

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