Mask; wood with red, white, black pigment; curved extension at top with geometric designs; stumps at base; carved teeth; prominent eyes surrounded by circles;
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Mali
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa, Upper Volta and Mali, Bobo; Donor: Bascom
Culture or time period:
Bobo
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1964
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 29, 1969
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 52 centimeters
Comment:
See accession envelope and catalogue card for additional information. PAHMA Storage Loc: 120A Mez, 21 d. Stanford Art Gallery, 1966; R.H. Lowie Mus. of Antho., 1967; Contra Costa Coll. Art Gall., 1968; Coll. of Marin Art Gallery, 1969; Dept. of Art, Santa Rosa Jr College, 1969.
Loans:
S1965-1966 #78: Cantor Arts Center (Stanford Univ.) (March 30, 1966–May 2, 1966), 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), and S1975-1976 #7: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (August 21, 1975–November 20, 1975)