headdress; wood; painted Wooden Egungun mask (or headdress); painted. Egigun, fancy. By Baba Alawode, Iganna, 150, 1938. Depicts a Mohammedan on horse; red, white, blue. (son of Baba Alawode?) H = 33.5 cm, Dia = 16.0 cm
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Igana, Oyo State, Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Nigeria; Igana; Yoruba
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1938
Materials:
Paint (coating) and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Headdresses and Masks (costume)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1971
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
diameter 16 centimeters and height 33.5 centimeters
Comment:
NOTE: Once entered at 1918, but had brass tack 21. PAHMA Storage Loc: W-13-6