Buttons
- Museum number:
- 5-16415a-h
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210516415a@2dh
- Alternate number:
- 5-16415 and B-191a-h (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4739
- Description:
- Ba-Pende mask buttons, carved ivory, flange on back to attach buttons.
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- Leopoldville, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Africa, Congo, Leopoldville
- Culture or time period:
- Ba Pende
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Collection date:
- 1944
- Materials:
- Ivory (material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Buttons (fasteners) and Masks (costume)
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Accession date:
- June 23, 2004
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- width 1.2 centimeters, length 3.3 centimeters, and height 1.1 centimeters
- Images:
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