Mask

Museum number:
5-16182
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050016182
Alternate number:
B-387 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.4739
Description:
Ibo mask representing a beautiful woman, carved and painted, white face with orange, blue, and brown around eyes, brown accents on rest of face, narrow eyes, prominent nose, bared teeth, back of mask not hollowed out, Bascom description is "beautiful woman with orange raffia, holes along the outer edge of mask for the raffia, mask set on mount." Ibo Mask (Udi, 1, 700, 1945). Beautiful women with orange raffia.
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:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
Accession date:
June 23, 2004
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
width 14.1 centimeters, length 24.5 centimeters, and height 12.8 centimeters
Loans:
S2008-2009 #8: SFO Museum (December 17, 2008–January 12, 2010)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Mask, accession number 5-16182, described as Ibo mask representing a beautiful woman, carved and painted, white face with orange, blue, and brown around eyes, brown accents on rest of face, narrow eyes, prominent nose, bared teeth, back of mask not hollowed out, Bascom description is "beautiful woman with orange raffia, holes along the outer edge of mask for the raffia, mask set on mount." Ibo Mask (Udi, 1, 700, 1945). Beautiful women with orange raffia.Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Mask, accession number 5-16182, described as Ibo mask representing a beautiful woman, carved and painted, white face with orange, blue, and brown around eyes, brown accents on rest of face, narrow eyes, prominent nose, bared teeth, back of mask not hollowed out, Bascom description is "beautiful woman with orange raffia, holes along the outer edge of mask for the raffia, mask set on mount." Ibo Mask (Udi, 1, 700, 1945). Beautiful women with orange raffia.Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Mask, accession number 5-16182, described as Ibo mask representing a beautiful woman, carved and painted, white face with orange, blue, and brown around eyes, brown accents on rest of face, narrow eyes, prominent nose, bared teeth, back of mask not hollowed out, Bascom description is "beautiful woman with orange raffia, holes along the outer edge of mask for the raffia, mask set on mount." Ibo Mask (Udi, 1, 700, 1945). Beautiful women with orange raffia.Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Mask, accession number 5-16182, described as Ibo mask representing a beautiful woman, carved and painted, white face with orange, blue, and brown around eyes, brown accents on rest of face, narrow eyes, prominent nose, bared teeth, back of mask not hollowed out, Bascom description is "beautiful woman with orange raffia, holes along the outer edge of mask for the raffia, mask set on mount." Ibo Mask (Udi, 1, 700, 1945). Beautiful women with orange raffia.

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