Mask

Museum number:
5-5963
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050005963
Alternate number:
B-343 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.2205
Description:
Ibo/Ibibio, wooden, mask (Bende, 400, 1945), semi-cylinder. Brown & black; tatoo marks on each cheek bone. Pierced all around the edge. H = 10.0”; W + 8.0”.
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa, Nigeria, Ibo/Ibibio; Collected at Bende, Nigeria
Culture or time period:
Igbo
Materials:
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:
1966
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Comment:
PAHMA Storage Loc: W-10-6
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-5963, described as Ibo/Ibibio, wooden, mask (Bende, 400, 1945), semi-cylinder. Brown & black; tatoo marks on each cheek bone. Pierced all around the edge. H = 10.0”; W + 8.0”.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-5963, described as Ibo/Ibibio, wooden, mask (Bende, 400, 1945), semi-cylinder. Brown & black; tatoo marks on each cheek bone. Pierced all around the edge. H = 10.0”; W + 8.0”.

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