Mask

Museum number:
5-13863
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
B-1263 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.3515
Description:
Miniature face mask; carved, dark wood. (Liberia) Purchased in 1970 in Berkeley, $40. L = 8.5 cm
Donor:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Liberia
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa, Liberia, Bassa; Purchased from Ernest Bucholz, 16550 Chattanooga Pl., Pacific Palisades, CA 90272. 213-454-5619.
Culture or time period:
Bassa
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume) and Miniature (size attribute)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
December 21, 1979
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Comment:
Illustrated: Bascom, 1973:27; PAHMA Storage Loc: V-32-3
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-13863, described as Miniature face mask; carved, dark wood. (Liberia) Purchased in 1970 in Berkeley, $40. L = 8.5 cm
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-13863, described as Miniature face mask; carved, dark wood. (Liberia) Purchased in 1970 in Berkeley, $40. L = 8.5 cm

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