Carved wooden face mask. Stylized face; horizonal bands.
Donor:
University Appropriation and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Cote d'Ivoire
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa, Ivory Coast; Ken tribes; Bete
Culture or time period:
Bete
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
July 1963
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
Accession date:
1963
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 10 inches and width 6.5 inches
Comment:
Murdock 33:3. NOTE: The “Original Number” that appears on the catalogue card is the Appraiser’s number; not a Bascom index number. PAHMA Storage Loc: V-30-11
Loans:
S1967-1968 #49: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Lucretia Nelson (October 31, 1967–January 8, 1968), S1967-1968 #82: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (February 8, 1968–April 1, 1968), S1968-1969 #39: Contra Costa College (November 18, 1968–December 27, 1968), S1968-1969 #84: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Lucretia Nelson (February 24, 1969–March 19, 1969), S1968-1969 #87: College of Marin (April 3, 1969–May 2, 1969), S1969-1970 #103: Los Angeles Natural History Museum (April 2, 1970–July 21, 1971), S1969-1970 #32: Santa Rosa Junior College (October 24, 1969–October 31, 1969), S1975-1976 #7: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (August 21, 1975–November 20, 1975), S2009-2010 #11a: SFO Museum (dates unknown), and S2009-2010 #11: SFO Museum (dates unknown)