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Start Over Collection Joseph A. Towles Artifact Collection ✖ Contributing Institution Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston ✖ Exclude Pages Yes ✖ Media Type Objects ✖

11. Small wooden pot

Small wooden pot

Date:: 1965 and 1966
Description:: Small wooden pot, crudely done; origin Ik people of Uganda.

12. Carved wooden figure

Carved wooden figure

Date:: 1951 and 1971
Description:: Wooden figure of Mbuti hunter with spear.

13. Unidentified wooden object; possibly, Chilean flamingo holder

Unidentified wooden object; possibly, Chilean flamingo holder

Date:: 1950 and 1979
Description:: Small wooden object, origin Tutsi people. Collector Colin Turnbull labeled the object "a parihuana holder."

14. Bamboo chair piece

Bamboo chair piece

Date:: 1951 and 1971
Description:: One of seventy bamboo pieces that comprise of an Mbata seat; origin Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), Ndaka people.

15. Acrylic painting

Acrylic painting

Date:: 1951 and 1989
Description:: Framed acrylic painting depicting a scene of modern and primitive dwellings being attacked by airplanes and tanks; villagers have guns, bows and arrows, and spears, and are wearing native garments; signed "DzibA C" lower right; origin unknown.

16. Ivory trilogy figures

Ivory trilogy figures

Date:: 1951 and 1989
Description:: Ivory figures depicting the Three Wise Monkeys motif ("See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil"); origin Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).

17. Bobblehead dog

Date:: 1951 and 1989
Description:: Plastic mechanical "bobblehead" dog, tail and head move, made for hotel use; origin eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).

18. Red ivory trumpet

Red ivory trumpet

Date:: 1951 and 1989
Description:: Red ivory trumpet with a carved human form; used by the Mbo and Ndaka people in the initiation of the Mbuti people; origin central Africa.

19. Ivory ornamental head

Ivory ornamental head

Date:: 1951 and 1989
Description:: Ivory stylized Mangbetu head, poised upwards; origin Mangbetu people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).

20. Ivory napkin ring

Ivory napkin ring

Date:: 1951 and 1989
Description:: Ivory tooth or tusk carved into an ornate ring with a circle and dot motif; resembles a napkin ring; origin eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).