Mask

Museum number:
5-16042
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050016042
Alternate number:
B-432 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.4701
Description:
Ibo Mask. carved and painted wood. white face. two curled horns painted black with red painted in the left curl. hairline, eyebrows, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and cheeks highlighted in black paint. 14 carved teeth. hollow backside. Conservation: small crack in midline from bottom row of teeth to chin ~6.5cm. Ibo Mask (Udi, 2, 500) Culred Horns, black and white with red.
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa; Nigeria; Ibo
Culture or time period:
Igbo
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1945
Materials:
Paint (coating) 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 4, 1999
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
width 17.2 centimeters and length 34 centimeters
Loans:
S2008-2009 #8: SFO Museum (December 17, 2008–January 12, 2010)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Mask, accession number 5-16042, described as Ibo Mask. carved and painted wood. white face. two curled horns painted black with red painted in the left curl. hairline, eyebrows, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and cheeks highlighted in black paint. 14 carved teeth. hollow backside. Conservation: small crack in midline from bottom row of teeth to chin ~6.5cm. Ibo Mask (Udi, 2, 500) Culred Horns, black and white with red.Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Mask, accession number 5-16042, described as Ibo Mask. carved and painted wood. white face. two curled horns painted black with red painted in the left curl. hairline, eyebrows, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and cheeks highlighted in black paint. 14 carved teeth. hollow backside. Conservation: small crack in midline from bottom row of teeth to chin ~6.5cm. Ibo Mask (Udi, 2, 500) Culred Horns, black and white with red.Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Mask, accession number 5-16042, described as Ibo Mask. carved and painted wood. white face. two curled horns painted black with red painted in the left curl. hairline, eyebrows, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and cheeks highlighted in black paint. 14 carved teeth. hollow backside. Conservation: small crack in midline from bottom row of teeth to chin ~6.5cm. Ibo Mask (Udi, 2, 500) Culred Horns, black and white with red.Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Mask, accession number 5-16042, described as Ibo Mask. carved and painted wood. white face. two curled horns painted black with red painted in the left curl. hairline, eyebrows, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and cheeks highlighted in black paint. 14 carved teeth. hollow backside. Conservation: small crack in midline from bottom row of teeth to chin ~6.5cm. Ibo Mask (Udi, 2, 500) Culred Horns, black and white with red.

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