Headpiece
- Museum number:
- 5-5299
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050005299
- Alternate number:
- [TBD-MTB, 10/2/2009] (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.2067
- Description:
- Wooden, antelope headpiece (Tji wara or Chi wara), with basketry cap of bast strips. Sides wicker woven on sprial foundation. Top checker plaited. Total H = 33.0 cm. Maximum W = 54.0 cm
- Donor:
- Russell S. Springer Memorial Fund, University Appropriation, and William Russell Bascom
- Collection place:
- Mali
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Mali; Bambara
- Culture or time period:
- Bambara
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Plaited weaving
- Function:
- 5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
- Accession date:
- 1965
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Comment:
- Original # on object is “154”. Not a Bascom inventory number. Appears to be a dealer’s number. Murdock 11:1Illustrated: Bascom, African Arts, 1967. PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A Mez, 118D
- Loans:
- S1968-1969 #12: California Department of Parks and Recreation (August 2, 1968–September 24, 1968), S1968-1969 #27: Art Department (UC Berkeley)/Irene Sawyer (October 8, 1968–October 8, 1968), and S1975-1976 #7: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (August 21, 1975–November 20, 1975)
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- Legacy documentation:
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