Mask

Museum number:
5-5317
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
[TBD-MTB, 10/2/2009] (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.2067
Description:
Carved, wooden mask surpmounted with open-work oval with insert hemispheres. H = 46.5 cm.
Donor:
Russell S. Springer Memorial Fund, University Appropriation, and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Cameroon
Verbatim coll. place:
Cameroon Grasslands; Kom
Culture or time period:
Kom
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Comment:
Original # on object is “88”. Not a Bascom number. Appears to be a dealer number. PAHMA Storage Loc: 116d
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Mask, accession number 5-5317, described as Carved, wooden mask surpmounted with open-work oval with insert hemispheres. H = 46.5 cm.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Mask, accession number 5-5317, described as Carved, wooden mask surpmounted with open-work oval with insert hemispheres. H = 46.5 cm.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Mask, accession number 5-5317, described as Carved, wooden mask surpmounted with open-work oval with insert hemispheres. H = 46.5 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-5317, described as Carved, wooden mask surpmounted with open-work oval with insert hemispheres. H = 46.5 cm.

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