Mask

Museum number:
5-10204
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050010204
Alternate number:
B-2322 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.2819
Description:
Wooden “tourist” mask; pyroengraved. Lozi . Height: 36.0 cm. Purchased at Cost Plus Imports, San Francisco, $2?, in 1961.
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Africa
Culture or time period:
Lozi tribes
Collection date:
before 1961
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
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-10204, described as Wooden “tourist” mask; pyroengraved. Lozi . Height: 36.0 cm. Purchased at Cost Plus Imports, San Francisco, $2?, in 1961.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-10204, described as Wooden “tourist” mask; pyroengraved. Lozi . Height: 36.0 cm. Purchased at Cost Plus Imports, San Francisco, $2?, in 1961.

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