Mask

Museum number:
5-4048
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050004048
Alternate number:
B-214 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.1950
Description:
Wooden mask; human head with horned headdress.
Donor:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Ghana
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Ghana; Voltaic Peoples; Lobi Cluster; Lobi
Culture or time period:
Lobi
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1944-1945
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
Accession date:
1964
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 23 centimeters
Comment:
Notation on card: “Henri Labouret (Les Tribus du Remeau Lobi, Travaux et Memoires de l’Institut d’Ethnologie, Vol 15, 1931) records that he induced a Lobi carver to copy a Baule mask with this result. Collected in the Gold Coast in 1943or 44. Slide. PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A, W-18-3. Remarks: Murdoch 12:14. Exhibited: Evanston Art Center, 1954; Memorial Union, Northwestern University, 1956; Heard Museum of Anthro. and Primitive Arts, Phoenix, 1964; Exh. Afr. Arts, 1967.
Loans:
S1963-1964 #112: Heard Museum (June 25, 1964–unknown) and S1969-1970 #103: Los Angeles Natural History Museum (April 2, 1970–July 21, 1971)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-4048, described as Wooden mask; human head with horned headdress.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-4048, described as Wooden mask; human head with horned headdress.

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