Mask
- Museum number:
- 5-14941
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050014941
- Alternate number:
- B-47 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4293
- Description:
- anthropomorphic Gelede mask (Save, 2500) 1944, “Egungun”; One of a pair (see #48). yellow ground with white, purple and black. H = 36.3cm
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- Nigeria
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Nigeria; Yoruba
- Culture or time period:
- Yoruba
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Masks (costume)
- Function:
- 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
- Accession date:
- December 21, 1988
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Comment:
- Illustrated: Cole, African Arts of Transformation, 1970, #43; Bascom ,1973, pg. 52. PAHMA Storage Loc: W-14-4
- Loans:
- S1983-1984 #43: Sonoma State University (February 28, 1984–April 24, 1984) and S1984-1985 #23: Sonoma State University (November 28, 1984–April 22, 1985)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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