figure
- Museum number
- Af1909,-.40
- Description
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Female figure carved from wood.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 120 centimetres
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Width: 36 centimetres
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Depth: 21 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Ethdoc 4
Letter John Roscoe, Kampala, Uganda/T A Joyce, 22 Dec. 1908
'Would you like to have a wooden effigy for the Museum? It is a native carving of a woman done in the time of King Mutesa by a man who appears to have been a native genius. There is nothing reliable about the figure so far as I know to make it interesting, though some people say that Mutesa ordered some natives to bring in women for his harem and this man carved one or two as he had not the women to give. I remember other figures and was told some years back that they had been ordered by Mutesa and am more inclined to believe they were made to order. .. It is about four feet high ...'
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2006/7, Kenya, Nairobi Gallery, Hazina: Traditions, Trade and Transitions in Eastern Africa
- Acquisition date
- 1909
- Acquisition notes
- Given by the Rev. John Roscoe, Kampala, Uganda, and recorded as a "wooden figure carved by a Muganda for King Mutesa."
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1909,-.40
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af1909C3.40 (old CDMS no.)