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: "GROTESQUE CARVING FROM LOG OF WOOD, EXCAVATED TO FIT OVER THE HEAD. FRINGE OF BARK AROUND THE NECK. MAR., 1949 IT WAS SUGGESTED BY AN ANONYMOUS VISITOR THAT THIS WAS FROM THE BAKETE TRIBE, BECAUSE IT RESEMBLES ONE SO LABELED IN A MUSEUM IN THE CONGO. IDENTIFIED AS BENA BIOMBO BY WM. FAGG. SEE ALSO HIMMELHEBER, "NEGERKUNST UND NEGERKUNSTLER", PP 353-354. WM FAGG IDENTIFIED THIS MASK AS BENA BIOMO, OF THE SOUTH WESTERN BAKUBA -3-5-64. 204418X."
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: Biombo
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: E204418-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask