Mask

Museum number:
5-16195
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
B-499 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.4739
Description:
mask with two horn-like projections, protruding face, round tube-like nose. scarification on face; blackened overall. six perforations for attachments at top and bottom. Conservation: Insect damage and drying cracks.
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Bende, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa; Nigeria; Bende; Ibibio
Culture or time period:
Ibibio
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Materials:
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:
June 23, 2004
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 15.8 centimeters, width 17.5 centimeters, and height 25.5 centimeters
Comment:
Slide; PAHMA Storage Loc: V 3-Bascom-6
Loans:
S1971-1972 #18: California State University, Sacramento (September 23, 1971–October 28, 1971)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Mask, accession number 5-16195, described as mask with two horn-like projections, protruding face, round tube-like nose. scarification on face; blackened overall. six perforations for attachments at top and bottom. Conservation: Insect damage and drying cracks.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Mask, accession number 5-16195, described as mask with two horn-like projections, protruding face, round tube-like nose. scarification on face; blackened overall. six perforations for attachments at top and bottom. Conservation: Insect damage and drying cracks.

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