Ibo Mask; carved, painted wood, assymetrical with two straight horns; colors, red, white and black; perforated along edges for rafia or drape attachment. Conservation: 2 small pegs behind horns broken, paint chipping, 6 upper teeth missing, crack in lower edge ending in a hole, hole at crown. Ibo Mask (Udi, 1, 400, 1945) Simple, old, Red-White-Black, assymetrical, straight horns.
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa, Nigeria, Ibo
Culture or time period:
Igbo
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1945
Materials:
Paint (coating) 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:
June 23, 2004
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 15.5 centimeters, height 45 centimeters, and width 15.5 centimeters
Comment:
Note on Bascom inventory card states : “Tooth missing, abrasion, chipping on horns, 5%, $50 claimed; $25 judgement. Slide. B/W photo stored with Bascom card. PAHMA Storage Loc: V 4-Bascom-4
Loans:
S1969-1970 #141 : Los Angeles County Museum of Art (September 18, 1969–December 3, 1969)