Mask
- Museum number:
- 2-59137
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020059137
- Accession number:
- Acc.3193
- Description:
- Red-painted wood "False Face" mask, anthropomorphic, large nose, twisted mouth with hanging tongue.
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Collection place:
- Allegany Reservation, Cattaraugus County, New York
- Verbatim coll. place:
- New York; Allegany Reservation
- Culture or time period:
- Seneca
- Maker or artist:
- Avery Jimmerson [Seneca]
- Collector:
- William Fenton
- Collection date:
- ca. 1943
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Masks (costume)
- Accession date:
- December 22, 1975
- Context of use:
- False Face Society dance mask, but this example probably made for sale.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 26.7 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1979-1980 #58: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/William S. Simmons (April 7, 1980–June 30, 1980)
- Legacy documentation:
-