Object class: Masks (costume) / Collection place: Congo Basin, Africa / Culture or time period: Bantu (Zone C) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Buttons, accession number 5-16415a-h, described as Ba-Pende mask buttons, carved ivory, flange on back to attach buttons.

Hearst Museum object titled Chair, accession number 5-11724, described as Chair, Zaire, Chokwe (Tu-Chokwe). March, 1976. 5-11724, acc no. 3219, file code 3.1. Collector: Axel M. Peterson. Donor: Exchange with M.H. DeYoung Mem. <us. for 5-3202 (Univ. Endowment Fund). Materials, techniques: carved dark brown wood Context of use: (includes role in trade) Chief's chair. The standing female figures represent female ancestral couple. Description: Chair; small carved dark brown wood chair; posts at rear surmounted by standing anthropomorphic female figures; panel in-between has incised geom. designs and mask-like anthropomorphic head; 4 stretchers carved with incised geom. designs; h. 41 cm.; w. seat 22 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Helmet mask, accession number 5-6238, described as mask; cloth and wood helmet; flat top w/ cowrie shells; oval face; bulbous slit eyes; diagonal stripes on cheeks; h. 36 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-10175, described as Ebony mask. H = 20.0 cm. Chokwe, by Matshitolo.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-15394, described as Helmet mask; wood; one piece, carved from solid block; unpainted; stylized pointed forehead; raised conical shaped eyes surrounded by holes; raised conical shaped mouth; stylized ears; stylized symbolic helmet; geometric incised designs throughout; holes drilled around edges for attachment of hood; length 41 cm, width 18.5 cm (at base)

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-10176, described as Ebony mask. H = 15.0 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-4517, described as Mask; (tin?) tarpaper covered with red trade cloth; covers eyes and part of nose; 35 x 13 cms.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-4518, described as Mask; black resin covered canvass; four loops; red and white decoration. Height 57 cm. “When the ‘Mukanda’ is going on, he comes to the village for joy and chases the women by throwing stones, but the like it and sing and laugh. His significance is that there is a ‘Mukanda’ in the village.”

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-8785, described as Mask; small circular blue and white face with up-turned nose; top of flat, horizontal disc, with center vertical pole with mounted green fish; four curved pole around edge with cloth attached to center pole; mask surrounded by dry grass;