Mask; small circular blue and white face with up-turned nose; top of flat, horizontal disc, with center vertical pole with mounted green fish; four curved pole around edge with cloth attached to center pole; mask surrounded by dry grass;
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Kwango Region, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Rep. of the Congo; Central Bantu; Kwango cluster; Yaka (Bayaka)
Culture or time period:
Ba Yaka
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1964
Materials:
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 23, 1970
Context of use:
Used for Nkanda initiation school
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 47 centimeters
Comment:
See Plancquaert 1930: 106-112, Mukanda initiation school. Nkanda (Bascom, African Arts, 1967, #146)Purchased in1964, from Aux Bateliers, 6 Grand-Place, Bruxelles, $50 + $31.41 shipping. (To be shipped by Sands, with #1098, $84.41). PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A Mez, 123B. Exhibited: San Jose State College, 1967
Loans:
S1975-1976 #7: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (August 21, 1975–November 20, 1975) and S1981-1982 #31: Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts (December 30, 1981–February 1, 1982)