Collection place: Western Africa / Culture or time period: Yoruba / Accession number: Acc.1683 - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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1. Cocoon

Museum number:: 5-2595
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Function:: 8.3 For Manufacturing
Dimensions:: length 15.24 centimeters
Collector:: William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Nigeria
Collection date:: 1943-1945

2. Crown

Museum number:: 5-2600
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Function:: 3.1 Status Objects and Insignia of Office
Dimensions:: height 29.21 centimeters and diameter 20.32 centimeters
Collector:: William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Southern Nigeria
Collection date:: 1938

3. Cup

Museum number:: 5-2597
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:: height 17.78 centimeters and diameter 17.463 centimeters
Collector:: William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Nigeria
Collection date:: 1938

4. Divining cup

Museum number:: 5-2588a
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Function:: 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Collector:: William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Republic of Benin
Collection date:: 1944

5. Divining cup and lid

Museum number:: 5-2588a,b
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Function:: 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: height 21.59 centimeters
Collector:: William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Republic of Benin
Collection date:: 1944

6. Divining cup lid

Museum number:: 5-2588b
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Function:: 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Collector:: William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Republic of Benin
Collection date:: 1944

7. Ere ibeji figure

Museum number:: 5-2602
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Object class:: Ere ibeji
Function:: 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: height 28.893 centimeters
Collector:: William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Nigeria
Collection date:: 1951

8. Ere ibeji figure

Museum number:: 5-2603
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Object class:: Ere ibeji
Function:: 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: height 30.48 centimeters
Collector:: William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Nigeria
Collection date:: 1951

9. Headpiece

Museum number:: 5-2596
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Function:: 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Dimensions:: diameter 17.78 centimeters and height 19.685 centimeters
Collector:: William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Nigeria
Collection date:: 1938

10. Heddle

Museum number:: 5-2601
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Function:: 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Dimensions:: length 24.765 centimeters
Collector:: William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Nigeria
Collection date:: 1951