Mask

Museum number:
5-3351
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
[TBD-MTB, 10/2/2009] (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.1770
Description:
Carved wooden face mask. Cloth head band with knotted fiber “beard”. White lime band above eyes, with red cheeks and nose.f 10.25” x 6.75”
Donor:
University Appropriation and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Liberia
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Liberia; Kru Tribes; Kran
Culture or time period:
Kran
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)
Comment:
Murdock 33:6Note: The “Original Number” appearing on the catalogue is the Appraiser’s number; no Bascom index number. PAHMA Storage Loc: V-32-10
Loans:
S1964-1965 #5: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/William Russell Bascom (July 16, 1964–July 16, 1964) and S1967-1968 #82: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (February 8, 1968–April 1, 1968)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-3351, described as Carved wooden face mask. Cloth head band with knotted fiber “beard”. White lime band above eyes, with red cheeks and nose.f 10.25” x 6.75”
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-3351, described as Carved wooden face mask. Cloth head band with knotted fiber “beard”. White lime band above eyes, with red cheeks and nose.f 10.25” x 6.75”

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