Mask
- Museum number:
- 5-16158
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050016158
- Alternate number:
- B-224 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4739
- Description:
- Ibibio leper mask with nose eaten away; carved and painted black and red
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- Nigeria
- Verbatim coll. place:
- West Africa; Nigeria; Ibibio
- Culture or time period:
- Ibibio
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Collection date:
- 1945
- Materials:
- Paint (coating) 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:
- June 23, 2004
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- height 23 centimeters, width 15 centimeters, and length 7.2 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1969-1970 #141 : Los Angeles County Museum of Art (September 18, 1969–December 3, 1969)
- Images:
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