Hip Mask Pendant
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1992
label: Collection Date
content: 1959
name: label: Donor Name
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
notes: label: Notes
content: Provenience undocumented (Benin City, Nigeria, 18th-19th c. dates based on chronology for Benin bronzes established by William Fagg and Philip Dark. Aaron Furman Gallery of NY, to 6/5/59; Joseph Hirshhorn purchase 6/5/59 to 5/17/66). Vetted by William Fagg and Philip Dark for Hirshhorn Museum (HMSG). Exhibited in HMSG's "Benin Art" Dec 1978 - (?) 1980. Description: oval-shaped hollow mask has stylized facial features with large bulging eyes with iron inlaid pupils, wide nose decorated with cross-hatched band along length of nose, lips. Scarification marks above eyes. Wears tall, mitre-shaped headdress with openwork diamond pattern & floral attachments. Lower circumference of mask has 2 flanges. Upper flange has series of mudfish. Lower flange has series of loops with 2 bigger ones at top & bottom center. Attached to the loops at bottom are 2 bells. Condition: top left mudfish on upper flange is cracked and only partially attached to surface.
label: Notes
content: SI Archives acc. 86-136, box 2
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Benin City, Edo State / Kingdom of Benin, Nigeria, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Edo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: E428169-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 20.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 13.5 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 5.5 cm