Carved wooden face mask. Painted orange; curbed beak-like prijection from nose is painted blue and white. Raffia fringe.
Donor:
University Appropriation and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Cote d'Ivoire
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Ivory Coast; Dan Tribe
Culture or time period:
Dan
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 12 centimeters
Comment:
Murdock 33:16Note: The “Original Number” appearing on the catalogue is the Appraiser’s number; no Bascom index number. PAHMA Storage Loc: V-30-7
Loans:
S1964-1965 #5: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/William Russell Bascom (July 16, 1964–July 16, 1964), S1967-1968 #49: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Lucretia Nelson (October 31, 1967–January 8, 1968), S1971-1972 #64: Art Gallery (Mills College) (January 3, 1972–February 22, 1972), and S1975-1976 #7: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (August 21, 1975–November 20, 1975)