Mask

Museum number:
5-16163
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050016163
Alternate number:
B-249 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.4739
Description:
small carved, wooden mask. back flat, hook for hanging. 2 mouths (Bascom records say that one mouth is small, the other old), small nose, 3 horns on head above ears, straight nose, eyes not carved, heavy brow, designs carved into face, most of mask covered in dark stain, nails around perimeter of mask, spots of green paint on back. Conservation: Chips on back of lower "mouth" chip on back of mask, left horn repared previously, 5.5cm crack next to right horn, 8cm crack over brow, 2.5 cm crack above right horn.
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
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 7.5 centimeters, length 22.2 centimeters, and height 12.2 centimeters
Comment:
Unreadable pencil notation on Bascom Inventory card. PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A Mez 131A
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Mask, accession number 5-16163, described as small carved, wooden mask. back flat, hook for hanging. 2 mouths (Bascom records say that one mouth is small, the other old), small nose, 3 horns on head above ears, straight nose, eyes not carved, heavy brow, designs carved into face, most of mask covered in dark stain, nails around perimeter of mask, spots of green paint on back. Conservation: Chips on back of lower "mouth" chip on back of mask, left horn repared previously, 5.5cm crack next to right horn, 8cm crack over brow, 2.5 cm crack above right horn.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Mask, accession number 5-16163, described as small carved, wooden mask. back flat, hook for hanging. 2 mouths (Bascom records say that one mouth is small, the other old), small nose, 3 horns on head above ears, straight nose, eyes not carved, heavy brow, designs carved into face, most of mask covered in dark stain, nails around perimeter of mask, spots of green paint on back. Conservation: Chips on back of lower "mouth" chip on back of mask, left horn repared previously, 5.5cm crack next to right horn, 8cm crack over brow, 2.5 cm crack above right horn.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Mask, accession number 5-16163, described as small carved, wooden mask. back flat, hook for hanging. 2 mouths (Bascom records say that one mouth is small, the other old), small nose, 3 horns on head above ears, straight nose, eyes not carved, heavy brow, designs carved into face, most of mask covered in dark stain, nails around perimeter of mask, spots of green paint on back. Conservation: Chips on back of lower "mouth" chip on back of mask, left horn repared previously, 5.5cm crack next to right horn, 8cm crack over brow, 2.5 cm crack above right horn.

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