Mask

Museum number:
5-15651
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050015651
Alternate number:
B-271 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.4614
Description:
mask, wood, handcarved; concave bowl-shaped platform w/head of Eshu nailed on top. Eshu figure with scarification on cheeks and forehead, and large tuft of hair extending from upper left side of head; monkey heads (3), bird, and yam (?), and antelope (?) head nailed near outer edge of bowl; ring of nails at rim; H = 23.0cm, Dia. = 30.0cm. with bag of fragments
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Abeokuta, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Nigeria; Yoruba; Abeokuta
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
December 15, 1993
Context of use:
Throughout Yorubaland, masquerades and rituals associated with 'Egungun' honor lineage ancestors. A distinctive subtype is the hunter's 'Egungun layewu'. This masquerade is the privilege of the chief of hunters...The most distinctive features...is the tuft of hair extending fromt he upper left side of the head...or ritually significant side of the head...
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
diameter 30 centimeters and height 23 centimeters
Comment:
PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A Mez, 115B
Loans:
S2009-2010 #11a: SFO Museum (dates unknown) and S2009-2010 #11: SFO Museum (dates unknown)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Mask, accession number 5-15651, described as mask, wood, handcarved; concave bowl-shaped platform w/head of Eshu nailed on top. Eshu figure with scarification on cheeks and forehead, and large tuft of hair extending from upper left side of head; monkey heads (3), bird, and yam (?), and antelope (?) head nailed near outer edge of bowl; ring of nails at rim; H = 23.0cm, Dia. = 30.0cm. with bag of fragmentsHearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Mask, accession number 5-15651, described as mask, wood, handcarved; concave bowl-shaped platform w/head of Eshu nailed on top. Eshu figure with scarification on cheeks and forehead, and large tuft of hair extending from upper left side of head; monkey heads (3), bird, and yam (?), and antelope (?) head nailed near outer edge of bowl; ring of nails at rim; H = 23.0cm, Dia. = 30.0cm. with bag of fragments
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-15651, described as mask, wood, handcarved; concave bowl-shaped platform w/head of Eshu nailed on top. Eshu figure with scarification on cheeks and forehead, and large tuft of hair extending from upper left side of head; monkey heads (3), bird, and yam (?), and antelope (?) head nailed near outer edge of bowl; ring of nails at rim; H = 23.0cm, Dia. = 30.0cm. with bag of fragments

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