Carved wooden head piece. Figure of a scorpion painted, alternating bands of red, black and white.
Donor:
University Appropriation and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Burkina Faso
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa, Upper Volta; Bobo, Nunuma
Culture or time period:
Bobo and Nunuma
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
July 1963
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Headdresses
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
Accession date:
1963
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 38.7 centimeters
Comment:
Murdock 12:21. Note: The “Original Number” that appears on the catalogue card is the Appraiser’s number; not a Bascom index number. PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A, W-18-1. Used by Bobo but carved by Nunuma according to Institut Francaise of Afrique Noire, Ouagadougou. Info from William Bascom 1966.
Loans:
S1964-1965 #20: California Alumni Association (October 14, 1964–October 23, 1964), S1970-1971 #96b: Dramatic Arts Department (UC Berkeley) (March 11, 1971–March 15, 1971), and S1971-1972 #74: Diablo Valley College (February 1, 1972–March 3, 1972)