Mask

Museum number:
5-6337
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050006337
Alternate number:
B-260 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.2308
Description:
Wooden Masks (Achi); Tin ears, black, round face. Protruding mouth; mouth & eyes pierced; crescent-shaped tin ears; heavy patina on face; holes around sides with fiber rope attached on right side. L = 27.5 cm, W = 21.0 cm.
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Achi, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Nigeria; Aci; Ibo
Culture or time period:
Igbo
Materials:
Fiber 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:
1967
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Comment:
(Murdock 31:20)Collected 1945; PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A, W-9-8
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-6337, described as Wooden Masks (Achi); Tin ears, black, round face. Protruding mouth; mouth & eyes pierced; crescent-shaped tin ears; heavy patina on face; holes around sides with fiber rope attached on right side. L = 27.5 cm, W = 21.0 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-6337, described as Wooden Masks (Achi); Tin ears, black, round face. Protruding mouth; mouth & eyes pierced; crescent-shaped tin ears; heavy patina on face; holes around sides with fiber rope attached on right side. L = 27.5 cm, W = 21.0 cm.

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