Mask

Museum number:
5-16025
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050016025
Alternate number:
B-374 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.4692
Description:
Ibo mask (Udi, 2, 1500) Black and white scare mask; good. Google eyed, striped horns. anthropomorphic mask, oval shape; painted white with black painted design lines around chin, mouth, above eyes.
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Udi, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Nigeria; Udi; Ibo
Culture or time period:
Igbo
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
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:
December 5, 1997
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
33 centimeters and 45 centimeters
Comment:
Illustrated: Bascom, African Art, 1967, #104 Chicago Sunday Tribune, 18 April 1948, Part 3, pg. 1N Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, 18 March 1949, pg. 12SlideB/W photo stored with Bascom Collection index card file. PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A Mez, 131A
Loans:
S1969-1970 #72: La Jolla Museum of Art (February 4, 1970–April 14, 1970) and S2008-2009 #8: SFO Museum (December 17, 2008–January 12, 2010)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Mask, accession number 5-16025, described as Ibo mask (Udi, 2, 1500) Black and white scare mask; good. Google eyed, striped horns. anthropomorphic mask, oval shape; painted white with black painted design lines around chin, mouth, above eyes.Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Mask, accession number 5-16025, described as Ibo mask (Udi, 2, 1500) Black and white scare mask; good. Google eyed, striped horns. anthropomorphic mask, oval shape; painted white with black painted design lines around chin, mouth, above eyes.Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Mask, accession number 5-16025, described as Ibo mask (Udi, 2, 1500) Black and white scare mask; good. Google eyed, striped horns. anthropomorphic mask, oval shape; painted white with black painted design lines around chin, mouth, above eyes.Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Mask, accession number 5-16025, described as Ibo mask (Udi, 2, 1500) Black and white scare mask; good. Google eyed, striped horns. anthropomorphic mask, oval shape; painted white with black painted design lines around chin, mouth, above eyes.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-16025, described as Ibo mask (Udi, 2, 1500) Black and white scare mask; good. Google eyed, striped horns. anthropomorphic mask, oval shape; painted white with black painted design lines around chin, mouth, above eyes.

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