Female headdress

Museum number:
5-13700a,b
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
B348ab (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3446
Description:
Headpiece w/ separate hair coil; ptd. wood; (a) headpiece: tapered anthropomorphic face and upper torso; pendant coils of carved hair ptd. black; white ground w/ red and black paint; necklace w/ white painted hemisphere in front; h. 43.7 cm.; (b) haircoil, black-ptd. wood, max. w. 27.5 cm. Total h. (a) & (b) 64.5 cm.
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Verbatim coll. place:
Nigeria, Ikot Ekpene, Ibibio
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1945
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works), Headdresses, and Women (female humans)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
December 19, 1978
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
total— height 64.5 centimeters, b— width 27.5 centimeters, and a— height 43.7 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Female headdress, accession number 5-13700a,b, described as Headpiece w/ separate hair coil; ptd. wood; (a) headpiece: tapered anthropomorphic face and upper torso; pendant coils of carved hair ptd. black; white ground w/ red and black paint; necklace w/ white painted hemisphere in front; h. 43.7 cm.; (b) haircoil, black-ptd. wood, max. w. 27.5 cm. Total h. (a) & (b) 64.5 cm.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Female headdress, accession number 5-13700a,b, described as Headpiece w/ separate hair coil; ptd. wood; (a) headpiece: tapered anthropomorphic face and upper torso; pendant coils of carved hair ptd. black; white ground w/ red and black paint; necklace w/ white painted hemisphere in front; h. 43.7 cm.; (b) haircoil, black-ptd. wood, max. w. 27.5 cm. Total h. (a) & (b) 64.5 cm.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Female headdress, accession number 5-13700a,b, described as Headpiece w/ separate hair coil; ptd. wood; (a) headpiece: tapered anthropomorphic face and upper torso; pendant coils of carved hair ptd. black; white ground w/ red and black paint; necklace w/ white painted hemisphere in front; h. 43.7 cm.; (b) haircoil, black-ptd. wood, max. w. 27.5 cm. Total h. (a) & (b) 64.5 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Female headdress, accession number 5-13700a,b, described as Headpiece w/ separate hair coil; ptd. wood; (a) headpiece: tapered anthropomorphic face and upper torso; pendant coils of carved hair ptd. black; white ground w/ red and black paint; necklace w/ white painted hemisphere in front; h. 43.7 cm.; (b) haircoil, black-ptd. wood, max. w. 27.5 cm. Total h. (a) & (b) 64.5 cm.

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