Bell

Museum number:
5-11714
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050011714
Alternate number:
B-1941 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.2819 and Acc.2916
Description:
Ifa 'bell'; carved wood, light in color, shaped like a staff, top portion consists of a kneeling male figure; 23 cm long, 3.5 cm wide.
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Igana, Oyo State, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Nigeria; Igana; Yoruba
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1938
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bells (idiophones)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1971 and December 15, 1972
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
width 3.5 centimeters and length 23 centimeters
Comment:
Slide. PAHMA Storage Loc: W-13-4 File Code: 5.2 [crossed out on card]; [handwritten on card: 5.1]
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bell, accession number 5-11714, described as Ifa 'bell'; carved wood, light in color, shaped like a staff, top portion consists of a kneeling male figure; 23 cm long, 3.5 cm wide.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bell, accession number 5-11714, described as Ifa 'bell'; carved wood, light in color, shaped like a staff, top portion consists of a kneeling male figure; 23 cm long, 3.5 cm wide.

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