Mask, medium sized, anthropomorphic; painted white with black design lines at chin, mouth, ears, eyes (three vertical lines under each eye), eyebrows and hair; surmounted with two oval protuberances carved from base wood, painted black. Ibo mask (Udi, 1, 600? 1945) Moth, silly, black and white, with old, dragging raffia.
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Udi, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Nigeria; Udi; Ibo
Culture or time period:
Igbo
Collector:
Berta Bascom and 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:
December 5, 1997
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
32 centimeters, 4 centimeters, and 38 centimeters
Comment:
PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A Mez, 132A
Loans:
S1968-1969 #132: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (June 10, 1969–June 11, 1969), S1968-1969 #39: Contra Costa College (November 18, 1968–December 27, 1968), S1968-1969 #87: College of Marin (April 3, 1969–May 2, 1969), and S1969-1970 #32: Santa Rosa Junior College (October 24, 1969–October 31, 1969)