Hearst Museum of Anthropology

Start Over Object name Dance vestment

Museum number:: 5-15425
Culture or time period:: Yoruba
Maker or artist:: Baba Kaba
Function:: 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: strands, smallest— length 28 centimeters, max— height 33 centimeters, and strands, max.— length 48 centimeters
Collector:: Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Nigeria
Collection date:: 1971

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