B-1932 (previous number (Bascom’s number)) and B-2273 (original number, Bascom number)
Accession number:
Acc.2819 and Acc.2916
Description:
mask; helmet-mask with superstructure, helmet elaborately carved and incised with non-representational designs, superstructure consists of an elongated neck and a head with a high round forehead, compact face and ornamental hair-dress; painted black; 68.5cm high, helmet: 23cm in diameter.
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Liberia
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa, Liberia, collected at Vai Town in 1957.; Donor: Bascom; Collected by Warren d’Azevedo
Culture or time period:
Vai
Collector:
Warren L. d'Azevedo
Collection date:
1957
Materials:
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:
1971 and December 15, 1972
Context of use:
Vai mask of Gbetu sub-division of Poro Association.
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
diameter 23 centimeters and height 68.5 centimeters
Comment:
PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A Mez, 118B
Loans:
S1964-1965 #5: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/William Russell Bascom (July 16, 1964–July 16, 1964), S1968-1969 #87: College of Marin (April 3, 1969–May 2, 1969), S1969-1970 #32: Santa Rosa Junior College (October 24, 1969–October 31, 1969), and S2009-2010 #7: SFO Museum (February 1, 2010–January 20, 2011)