Mask

Museum number:
5-2585
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050002585
Alternate number:
B-12 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.1683
Description:
Congo mask; small, painted with incised designs on cheeks.
Donor:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Leopoldville, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa, Congo, Leopoldville
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1943-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1962
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
width 13.65 centimeters and height 17.2 centimeters
Comment:
PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A, V-18-4. Exhibited at Memorial Union, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1956.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-2585, described as Congo mask; small, painted with incised designs on cheeks.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-2585, described as Congo mask; small, painted with incised designs on cheeks.

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