Casting
- Museum number:
- 5-4893
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050004893
- Alternate number:
- B-2309 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.2063 and Acc.2103
- Description:
- Cameroons brass casting - Large mask - collected by Paul Gebauer - Photo in Gebauer’s movie - 161/2”H by 111/2” W
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom, South African Museum, and William Russell Bascom
- Collection place:
- Cameroon
- Verbatim coll. place:
- West Africa, Cameroon; Collected by Paul Gabauer
- Culture or time period:
- Bamun
- Collector:
- William Russell Bascom
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Masks (costume)
- Function:
- 5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
- Accession date:
- 1965
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Loans:
- S1963-1964 #112: Heard Museum (June 25, 1964–unknown)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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