Hearst Museum of Anthropology

Start Over Object name Headdress Collector Berta Bascom

Museum number:: 5-15999
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Object class:: Headdresses
Function:: 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Collector:: Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Nigeria
Collection date:: 1970

Museum number:: 5-10182
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Object class:: Headdresses and Masks (costume)
Function:: 2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Dimensions:: height 33.5 centimeters and diameter 16 centimeters
Collector:: Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Igana, Oyo State, Nigeria
Collection date:: 1938

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