Media available: legacy documentation / Loans: S1968-1969 #87: College of Marin (April 3, 1969–May 2, 1969)

Museum number:: 5-15654
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Object class:: Carvings (visual works)
Function:: 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: height 18.2 centimeters and width 9 centimeters
Collector:: Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Abeokuta, Nigeria
Collection date:: 1965

Museum number:: 5-15655
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Object class:: Carvings (visual works)
Function:: 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: height 18.2 centimeters and width 9 centimeters
Collector:: Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Abeokuta, Nigeria
Collection date:: 1965

Museum number:: 5-15415a-q
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Object class:: Cups (drinking vessels)
Function:: 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: a— height 19.7 centimeters
Collector:: Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:: March 1938

Museum number:: 5-12977
Culture or time period:: Ba Kuba
Object class:: Carvings (visual works)
Function:: 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: length 28 centimeters
Collector:: Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Collection date:: 1968

Museum number:: 5-11721
Culture or time period:: Malinke
Object class:: Dolls (figurines)
Function:: 6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
Dimensions:: height 8.5 centimeters
Collector:: Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Guinea
Collection date:: 1944

Museum number:: 5-7693
Object class:: Carvings (visual works)
Function:: 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Collector:: Paul Gebauer
Collection place:: Cameroon
Collection date:: before 1950

Museum number:: 5-14331
Culture or time period:: Ba Kuba
Object class:: Drums (membranophones)
Function:: 5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments and 5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Dimensions:: height 27.3 centimeters
Collector:: William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Collection date:: 1968

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