Dance Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Nov 1899
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Samuel P. Verner
label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Samuel P. Verner
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LARGE MASK TO FIT OVER THE HEAD CARVED FROM A LOG. PAINTED RED, WHITE AND BLACK. FRINGE OF PALM FIBRE AROUND THE NECK. 3/1949 IT WAS SUGGESTED BY AN UNNAMED MALE VISITOR, WHO APPARENTLY HAD SOME KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUBJECT, THAT THIS WAS FROM THE "BAKETE" TRIBE, BECAUSE THE SAME AS ONE SO LABELED IN THE CONGO MUSEUM, WEST AFRICA. RAE JR. BA-KETE - SEE VON SYDOW HANDBUCH DER AFRIKANISCHEN PLASTIK P. 394, TEXT DESCRIPTION-G.D.G. BENA BIOMBO-SEE HIMMELHEBER, H., NEGERKUNST UND NEGERKUNSTLER PP. 353-354 AND FIGS. 277. HIMMELHEBER SAYS THIS TYPE IS CALLED "MULUALA," AND IS FOUND AMONG THE BAKUBA, BABINDJI, AND OTHER TRIBES OF THE AREA, AS WELL AS THE BENA BIOMBO. THE EYES ARE SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT CHAMELEON EYES. THIS TYPE OF MASK IS MADE VERY LARGE AMONG THE BENA BIOMBO, AND VIVIDLY PAINTED."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 May 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kasai River (upper), Democratic Republic of the Congo (not certain) / Angola (not certain), Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kete
label: Culture
content: (Ba Kete)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035839
label: USNM Number
content: E204314-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 43 cm