Anthropomorphic, wooden mask with squares in red and white pigment. Surmounted by standing female figurine with x design in red and white pigment down torso.
Donor:
Russell S. Springer Memorial Fund, University Appropriation, and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Burkina Faso
Verbatim coll. place:
Upper Volta; Dagari
Culture or time period:
Dagari
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
Summer 1965
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 1 centimeters
Comment:
Original # on object is “12”. Not a Bascom inventory number. Appears to be a dealer’s number. Murdock 12:17; PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A Mez,121d