Head
- Museum number:
- 5-11691
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050011691
- Alternate number:
- B-357 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.2819 and Acc.2916
- Description:
- Carved wood head
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Collection place:
- Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Verbatim coll. place:
- C. Africa, Kinshasa, Congo; Chokwe
- Culture or time period:
- Chokwe
- Maker or artist:
- Mashitolo Mwata Zola
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Collection date:
- 1944
- Materials:
- Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Carvings (visual works)
- Function:
- 5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
- Accession date:
- 1971 and December 15, 1972
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- height 19.5 centimeters
- Images:
-
- Legacy documentation:
-