Mask, anthropomorphic; dark wood; shallow face surmounted by long-billed bird inside figure-8 headdress; carved decoration on forehead and between eyebrows; scalloped edge; slit eyes. Purchased in1965, but omitted from purchase list. Cf. 1122.
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Cote d'Ivoire
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa, Ivory Coast, Baule; Purchased at Abidjan
Culture or time period:
Baule
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1965
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:
December 16, 1974
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 38 centimeters
Comment:
PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A, V-30-4
Loans:
S1968-1969 #39: Contra Costa College (November 18, 1968–December 27, 1968), S1968-1969 #87: College of Marin (April 3, 1969–May 2, 1969), S1969-1970 #32: Santa Rosa Junior College (October 24, 1969–October 31, 1969), 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)