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Museum number:: 5-3421
Permalink:: ark:/21549/hm21050003421
Alternate number:: B-90 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:: Acc.1807
Object count:: 1
Description:: Ibo Mask (Udi 2, 400, 1945). Small; black & white, with raffia trim. Incised checkered forehead; dark painted trim lines.
Donor:: William Russell Bascom
Collection place:: Obiama village, Bayelsa, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:: West Africa, Nigeria, Village of Obiama (near Udi), Ibo; Carved by Ugbozo Ozobha-Abu
Culture or time period:: Igbo
Collector:: William Russell Bascom
Collection date:: 1945
Materials:: Paint (coating), Raffia (fiber), and Wood (plant material)
Object type:: ethnography
Object class:: Masks (costume)
Function:: 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:: 1963
Department:: Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:: 5.25 inches and length 7.25 inches
Comment:: These are part of a collection of about 100 masks all attributed to a single woodcarver Ugbozo Ozobha-Agu (see card for accents).
Loans:: S2008-2009 #8: SFO Museum (December 17, 2008–January 12, 2010)