Mask

Museum number:
5-4518
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050004518
Accession number:
Acc.1375
Description:
Mask; black resin covered canvass; four loops; red and white decoration. Height 57 cm. “When the ‘Mukanda’ is going on, he comes to the village for joy and chases the women by throwing stones, but the like it and sing and laugh. His significance is that there is a ‘Mukanda’ in the village.”
Donor:
Daniel J. Crowley and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Dilolo Gare, Katanga province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Verbatim coll. place:
Dilolo Gare; Chokwe
Culture or time period:
Chokwe
Collector:
Daniel J. Crowley
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1960
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Mask, accession number 5-4518, described as Mask; black resin covered canvass; four loops; red and white decoration. Height 57 cm. “When the ‘Mukanda’ is going on, he comes to the village for joy and chases the women by throwing stones, but the like it and sing and laugh. His significance is that there is a ‘Mukanda’ in the village.”Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Mask, accession number 5-4518, described as Mask; black resin covered canvass; four loops; red and white decoration. Height 57 cm. “When the ‘Mukanda’ is going on, he comes to the village for joy and chases the women by throwing stones, but the like it and sing and laugh. His significance is that there is a ‘Mukanda’ in the village.”Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Mask, accession number 5-4518, described as Mask; black resin covered canvass; four loops; red and white decoration. Height 57 cm. “When the ‘Mukanda’ is going on, he comes to the village for joy and chases the women by throwing stones, but the like it and sing and laugh. His significance is that there is a ‘Mukanda’ in the village.”
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-4518, described as Mask; black resin covered canvass; four loops; red and white decoration. Height 57 cm. “When the ‘Mukanda’ is going on, he comes to the village for joy and chases the women by throwing stones, but the like it and sing and laugh. His significance is that there is a ‘Mukanda’ in the village.”

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