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Museum number:
5-14323
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Object class:
Axes (tools)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Dimensions:
height 48.5 centimeters
Collector:
Baba Kaba and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Collection date:
1970
Museum number:
5-15421
Culture or time period:
Benin and Yoruba
Object class:
Bells (idiophones)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:
height 16 centimeters
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Collection date:
1970
Museum number:
5-12986
Culture or time period:
Bini Tribe
Object class:
Busts (sculpture)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Collection place:
Nigeria
Collection date:
1973
Museum number:
5-15926
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:
height 45.5 centimeters
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Collection date:
1970
Museum number:
5-12985
Object class:
Cups (drinking vessels)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:
height 56.5 centimeters
Collector:
Dutch Collector in Amsterdam
Collection place:
Nigeria
Collection date:
1974
Museum number:
5-15425
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Maker or artist:
Baba Kaba
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:
max— height 33 centimeters, strands, smallest— length 28 centimeters, and strands, max.— length 48 centimeters
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Collection date:
1971
Museum number:
5-14321
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:
height 55 centimeters
Collector:
Vivian Burns and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Collection date:
1974
Museum number:
5-13707
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Object class:
Drums (membranophones)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Collection date:
1970
Museum number:
5-11843
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Object class:
Ere ibeji
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Dimensions:
height 28.4 centimeters
Collector:
Barbara M. Roth
Collection place:
Nigeria
Collection date:
1973
Museum number:
5-14921
Culture or time period:
Ashanti
Object class:
Gold-weights
Function:
7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
Dimensions:
height 5 centimeters
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Ghana
Collection date:
January 1973
Museum number:
5-14926
Culture or time period:
Ashanti
Object class:
Gold-weights
Function:
7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
Dimensions:
length 4.1 centimeters
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Ghana
Collection date:
1972
Museum number:
5-14919
Culture or time period:
Ashanti
Object class:
Gold-weights
Function:
7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
Dimensions:
height 4.4 centimeters and weight 22.8 grams
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Ghana
Collection date:
January 1973
Museum number:
5-14920
Culture or time period:
Ashanti
Object class:
Gold-weights
Function:
7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
Dimensions:
weight 38.7 grams and height 5.2 centimeters
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Ghana
Collection date:
January 1973
Museum number:
5-14922
Culture or time period:
Ashanti
Object class:
Gold-weights
Function:
7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
Dimensions:
height 5 centimeters
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Ghana
Collection date:
1972
Museum number:
5-14923
Culture or time period:
Ashanti
Object class:
Gold-weights
Function:
7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
Dimensions:
height 5.3 centimeters
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Ghana
Collection date:
1972
Museum number:
5-16371
Culture or time period:
Baule
Object class:
Gold-weights
Function:
7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
Dimensions:
height 5.1 centimeters, length 4.7 centimeters, and width 3.4 centimeters
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Collection date:
1971
Museum number:
5-14918
Culture or time period:
Ashanti
Object class:
Gold-weights
Function:
7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
Dimensions:
width 1.5 centimeters
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Ghana
Collection date:
1973
Museum number:
5-14925
Culture or time period:
Ashanti
Object class:
Gold-weights
Function:
7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
Dimensions:
height 3.1 centimeters
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Ghana
Collection date:
1972
Museum number:
5-14924
Culture or time period:
Ashanti
Object class:
Gold-weights
Function:
7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
Dimensions:
height 5.1 centimeters
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Ghana
Collection date:
1972
Museum number:
5-14928
Culture or time period:
Ashanti
Object class:
Gold-weights
Function:
7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
Dimensions:
height 6.5 centimeters
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Ghana
Collection date:
1972