Carved, wooden, “fire spitter, helmet mask. Painted stripes and dots form decoration. L = 46.5 cm
Donor:
Russell S. Springer Memorial Fund, University Appropriation, and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Mali
Verbatim coll. place:
Upper Volta; Senufo
Culture or time period:
Senufo
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Comment:
Original # on object is “3”. Not a Bascom inventory number. Appears to be a dealer’s number. Murdock 12:6NOTE: Dance mask of Korubla Society.Illustrated: Bascom: African Arts, 1967; PAHMA Storage Loc: 119a
Loans:
S1975-1976 #7: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (August 21, 1975–November 20, 1975)