Headdress

Museum number:
5-10181
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050010181
Alternate number:
B-1920 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.2819
Description:
headdress; wood; blue paint; incised herringbone designs on cap; fin-like decoration attached at crown; H. 20 cm. diam. 15.5 cm.
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Igana, Oyo State, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Nigeria; Igana; Yoruba
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
Baba Alawode [Yoruba]
Collection date:
1938
Materials:
Paint (coating) and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Headdresses
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1971
Context of use:
woman's headdress; used by Onidan Egungun society
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Comment:
PAHMA Storage Loc: W-13-6 (Murdock 31:31) File Code: 2.4 [crossed out on card]; [handwritten on card: 5.3]
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 5 titled Headdress, accession number 5-10181, described as headdress; wood; blue paint; incised herringbone designs on cap; fin-like decoration attached at crown; H. 20 cm. diam. 15.5 cm.Hearst Museum object 2 of 5 titled Headdress, accession number 5-10181, described as headdress; wood; blue paint; incised herringbone designs on cap; fin-like decoration attached at crown; H. 20 cm. diam. 15.5 cm.Hearst Museum object 3 of 5 titled Headdress, accession number 5-10181, described as headdress; wood; blue paint; incised herringbone designs on cap; fin-like decoration attached at crown; H. 20 cm. diam. 15.5 cm.Hearst Museum object 4 of 5 titled Headdress, accession number 5-10181, described as headdress; wood; blue paint; incised herringbone designs on cap; fin-like decoration attached at crown; H. 20 cm. diam. 15.5 cm.Hearst Museum object 5 of 5 titled Headdress, accession number 5-10181, described as headdress; wood; blue paint; incised herringbone designs on cap; fin-like decoration attached at crown; H. 20 cm. diam. 15.5 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 5-10181, described as headdress; wood; blue paint; incised herringbone designs on cap; fin-like decoration attached at crown; H. 20 cm. diam. 15.5 cm.

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