Door, carved wood with red and brown stains; animals, mask, symbols, standing human carved in high relief on one side; checkerboard design in low relief on reverse.
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Cote d'Ivoire
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa, Ivory Coast, Baule; (Murdock 32:20)
Culture or time period:
Baule
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1964
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
4.2 Public Buildings and Furnishings
Accession date:
December 29, 1969
Context of use:
Prob. used on one of the clan sanctuary buildings which were located in sacred groves near the village.
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 126 centimeters and width 54.5 centimeters
Comment:
See accession record and catalogue card for additional information.B/W photo stored with Bascom Collection Index card file. PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A Mez, behind 133. (Purchased, 1964, Pierre Verite, Galerie Carrefour, 141 Boulevard Raspail, Paris 6e. $285 + $91.71 shipping - $376.71.)
Loans:
S1965-1966 #78: Cantor Arts Center (Stanford Univ.) (March 30, 1966–May 2, 1966), S1968-1969 #87: College of Marin (April 3, 1969–May 2, 1969), S1969-1970 #32: Santa Rosa Junior College (October 24, 1969–October 31, 1969), S1973-1974 #64: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (February 8, 1974–February 21, 1989), and S1975-1976 #7: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (August 21, 1975–November 20, 1975)