B-1957 (previous number (Bascom’s number)) and B2272 (original number, Bascom number)
Accession number:
Acc.3193
Description:
Blackened wooden helmet mask; anthropomorphic; triangular shaped face, rolls of flesh represented on the neck; elaborate headdress. H = 37.0 cm
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Liberia
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa, Liberia, Vai; Donor: Bascom; Collector: Warren d’Azevedo
Culture or time period:
Vai
Collector:
Warren L. d'Azevedo
Collection date:
1957
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 22, 1975
Context of use:
Sande Society mask
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 37 centimeters
Comment:
Sande Society mask. PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A Mez, 118B
Loans:
S1982-1983 #25: California State University, East Bay (February 1, 1983–March 23, 1983) and S2009-2010 #7: SFO Museum (February 1, 2010–January 20, 2011)