mask; costume headpiece; carved wood; anthropomorphic face with ground of linear zigzags carved out; prominent nose, open lips, white eyes outlined in purple; red, purple and black painted headdress; h. at back ca. 33 cm.
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Modakeke, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Nigeria; Modakeke; Yoruba
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1937
Materials:
Pigment and Wood (plant material)
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 22, 1975
Context of use:
carved by Akinade of Modakeke; headpiece of the 'Egungun' cult, usually for 'trickster' 'Egungun' ('onidan').
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 33 centimeters
Comment:
Headpiece of the Egungun cult, usually for “trickster” Egungun (onidan). Illustrated: Bascom: Afircan Art in Cultural Perspective, Plate #51, pages 88-89. PAHMA Storage Loc: W-15-7