Carved wooden face mask. Pronounced fore-head; shot gun in cheeks.
Donor:
University Appropriation and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Cote d'Ivoire
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa, Ivory Coast, Mande; Dan (Bascom attrib. 1966)
Culture or time period:
Dan
Collector:
William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
July 1963
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)
Accession date:
1963
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
width 22.85 centimeters and length 15.84 centimeters
Comment:
Murdock 33:24. NOTE: The “Original Number” that appears on the catalogue card is the Appraiser’s number; not a Bascom index number. PAHMA Storage Loc: V-30-8
Loans:
S1964-1965 #5: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/William Russell Bascom (July 16, 1964–July 16, 1964), S1965-1966 #86a: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (May 19, 1966–September 6, 1966), S1967-1968 #126: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/Vera Mae Frederickson (April 22, 1968–April 23, 1968), S1967-1968 #49: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Lucretia Nelson (October 31, 1967–January 8, 1968), S1967-1968 #82: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (February 8, 1968–April 1, 1968), S1975-1976 #7: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (August 21, 1975–November 20, 1975), S2009-2010 #11b: SFO Museum (dates unknown), and S2009-2010 #11: SFO Museum (dates unknown)