Mask

Museum number:
5-16030
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050016030
Alternate number:
B-440 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.4692
Description:
Mask, small, anthropomorphic, painted white with yellow/brown design lines besecting face, around mouth, one eye and top; surrounded by raffia fringe; nails. Ibo mask (Udi, 1?, (M), 200, 1945). One-eye, small. Black and white, with raffia.
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Nigeria; Udi; Ibo
Culture or time period:
Igbo
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1945
Materials:
Paint (coating), Raffia (fiber), and 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:
December 5, 1997
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
24 centimeters, 35 centimeters, and 16 centimeters
Comment:
PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A Mez, 132A
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-16030, described as Mask, small, anthropomorphic, painted white with yellow/brown design lines besecting face, around mouth, one eye and top; surrounded by raffia fringe; nails. Ibo mask (Udi, 1?, (M), 200, 1945). One-eye, small. Black and white, with raffia.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-16030, described as Mask, small, anthropomorphic, painted white with yellow/brown design lines besecting face, around mouth, one eye and top; surrounded by raffia fringe; nails. Ibo mask (Udi, 1?, (M), 200, 1945). One-eye, small. Black and white, with raffia.

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