Carved wooden Ibo Mini- Mask (Udi 2, 600, 1945) . Medium sized; grimmacing face with 2 carved, curled horns on head; Black and white, red tongue, pyro-engraved lines.
Donor:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Obiama village, Bayelsa, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa, Nigeria, Village of Obiama (near Udi), Ibo; Carved by Ugbozo Ozgbha-Ahu
Culture or time period:
Igbo
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1945
Materials:
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:
1963
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 46 centimeters
Comment:
An object bearing this catalogue number verified in 20A, W-9-10 on 4/24/2000. PAHMA Storage Loc: V-18-3 or W-9-10 This mask is part of a collections of about a hundred masks all attribulted to a single woodcarver, Ugbozo Ozobha-Agu (note-- see card for name accents)
Loans:
S1965-1966 #2: Civic Arts Center (Walnut Creek) (July 7, 1965–August 5, 1965) and S2008-2009 #8: SFO Museum (December 17, 2008–January 12, 2010)