Hearst Museum of Anthropology

Start Over Collector William Russell Bascom

Museum number:: 5-11714
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Object class:: Bells (idiophones)
Function:: 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: width 3.5 centimeters and length 23 centimeters
Collector:: Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Igana, Oyo State, Nigeria
Collection date:: 1938

Museum number:: 5-16762
Object class:: Bells (idiophones)
Function:: 2.1 Daily Garb
Dimensions:: min— diameter 0.5 centimeters, max— length 1.5 centimeters, max— diameter 1 centimeters, and min— length 0.9 centimeters
Collector:: Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Western Africa

Museum number:: 5-16435a,b
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Object class:: Bells (idiophones)
Function:: 5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Dimensions:: length 43 centimeters, width 6.5 centimeters, and height 4.5 centimeters
Collector:: Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Nigeria
Collection date:: 1938?

Museum number:: 5-13051a,b
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Object class:: Bells (idiophones)
Function:: 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: b— length 3 centimeters and a— length 32.2 centimeters
Collector:: Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Nigeria
Collection date:: 1969

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