Architecture
Door Boss
2003-48-28A
From: Dahomey | Benin
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 2003-48-28A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Dahomey | Benin |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Wood | Pigment |
| Technique | Carved | Painted |
| Description | Building component. Carved and painted door boss (decoration). Turtle shape. Black and white pigment used. (1900.1.A0005a) |
| Height | 3.5 cm |
| Length | 13 cm |
| Width | 7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1993.X.1502 - Other Number |
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