Mask

Museum number:
5-5998
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2263
Description:
Sorcerer's headdress;" two strips of indigo-dyed cotton decorated with multicolored glass beads; two stiff round ears; nose in relief; eye holes; L. 123 cm.
Donor:
The Calvin K. and Doreen B. Townsend Donation and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Cameroon
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Cameroon; Bamileke (Murdock ... 30:1)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1967
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-5998, described as Sorcerer's headdress;" two strips of indigo-dyed cotton decorated with multicolored glass beads; two stiff round ears; nose in relief; eye holes; L. 123 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 5-5998, described as Sorcerer's headdress;" two strips of indigo-dyed cotton decorated with multicolored glass beads; two stiff round ears; nose in relief; eye holes; L. 123 cm.

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