Mask

Museum number:
5-16150
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050016150
Alternate number:
B-203 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
Accession number:
Acc.4739
Object count:
1
Description:
Ibo mask. carved wooden goat mask painted black. carved brow ridge, tubular eyes, nose with nostrils, ears, mouth. 10 carved teeth. 2 horns extending from top of head into forehead. angular design carved on forehead and down the sides of the face. knob on top of head. hollow back. Conservation: Crack on left side of forehead. Ibo Mask (Udi 300, 1945) medium, black, goat with tubular eyes; horns
Donor:
Berta Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa; Nigeria; Ibo
Culture or time period:
Igbo
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
1945
Materials:
Paint (coating) and 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:
June 23, 2004
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
width 21 centimeters and length 39 centimeters
Comment:
Slide. PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A Mez 133C
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Mask, accession number 5-16150, described as Ibo mask. carved wooden goat mask painted black. carved brow ridge, tubular eyes, nose with nostrils, ears, mouth. 10 carved teeth. 2 horns extending from top of head into forehead. angular design carved on forehead and down the sides of the face. knob on top of head. hollow back. Conservation: Crack on left side of forehead. Ibo Mask (Udi 300, 1945) medium, black, goat with tubular eyes; hornsHearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Mask, accession number 5-16150, described as Ibo mask. carved wooden goat mask painted black. carved brow ridge, tubular eyes, nose with nostrils, ears, mouth. 10 carved teeth. 2 horns extending from top of head into forehead. angular design carved on forehead and down the sides of the face. knob on top of head. hollow back. Conservation: Crack on left side of forehead. Ibo Mask (Udi 300, 1945) medium, black, goat with tubular eyes; hornsHearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Mask, accession number 5-16150, described as Ibo mask. carved wooden goat mask painted black. carved brow ridge, tubular eyes, nose with nostrils, ears, mouth. 10 carved teeth. 2 horns extending from top of head into forehead. angular design carved on forehead and down the sides of the face. knob on top of head. hollow back. Conservation: Crack on left side of forehead. Ibo Mask (Udi 300, 1945) medium, black, goat with tubular eyes; horns

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