cast;
sculpture
- Museum number
- CRS.73
- Description
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Cast; sculpture, made of plaster. In form of a bird sitting on to of a pedestal. Set into square base. Painted grey throughout to match original soapstone object. Distinguished by short panel of chevrons at front of chest. Plummage indicated by parallel oblique lines.
- Production date
- 1900-1981 (cast)
- Dimensions
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Height: 182 centimetres (including base)
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Height: 174.50 centimetres (without base)
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Width: 10 centimetres (without base)
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Width: 19 centimetres
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Depth: 12 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- In 1891 Cecil Rhodes commissioned the first excavation of Great Zimbabwe. He appointed British Antiquarian and traveller James Theodore Bent to undertake this task. Bent removed the original soapstone bird (no. 4) from the Sacred (Eastern Enclosure). This and three other complete birds and one fragmentary bird were sent to the South African Museum in Cape Town.
They were returned to Zimbabwe following independence in 1981.
It is unknown when or where this cast was taken.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good. Some minor surface abrasion.
- Acquisition notes
- Acquisition details unknown.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- CRS.73
