Mask

Museum number:
5-3371
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
B-206 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.1770
Description:
Carved wooden face mask. Eyes, brows and nose with tin strip trimming; 2-pronged extension under chin (beard?).
Donor:
University Appropriation and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Sierra Leone
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa, Sierra Leone; Kono
Culture or time period:
Kono
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
July 1963
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
Accession date:
1963
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 44.5 centimeters
Comment:
Murdock 33:20Note: The “Original Number” that appears on the catalogue card is the Appraiser’s number; not a Bascom index number. PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A, W-17-3
Loans:
S1964-1965 #5: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/William Russell Bascom (July 16, 1964–July 16, 1964)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-3371, described as Carved wooden face mask. Eyes, brows and nose with tin strip trimming; 2-pronged extension under chin (beard?).
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-3371, described as Carved wooden face mask. Eyes, brows and nose with tin strip trimming; 2-pronged extension under chin (beard?).

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