Mask

Museum number:
5-4057
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050004057
Alternate number:
B-2276 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.1950
Description:
Large, black, wooden Ibibio (Anang) mask. Face with tongue protruding from mouth; lizard & snake on forehead. 55.0 cm high. Collected in 1950-51.
Donor:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Southern Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa, S. Nigeria, Bentoid cluster, Anang Ibibio; Gift from John Messenger.
Culture or time period:
Ibibio
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1964
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Loans:
S1963-1964 #112: Heard Museum (June 25, 1964–unknown)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-4057, described as Large, black, wooden Ibibio (Anang) mask. Face with tongue protruding from mouth; lizard & snake on forehead. 55.0 cm high. Collected in 1950-51.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-4057, described as Large, black, wooden Ibibio (Anang) mask. Face with tongue protruding from mouth; lizard & snake on forehead. 55.0 cm high. Collected in 1950-51.

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