Helmet Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 Dec 2017
label: Collection Date
content: 1960
name: label: Collector
content: Allen Davis
label: Donor Name
content: Allen Davis
notes: label: Notes
content: Carved wooden helmet mask, painted black. The horns are attached at the tips, the protruding ears are painted red. The forehead is domed, the carved mouth, painted red, is square with white teeth. There is a snake down the top with a red head. The eyes have red rims.
label: Notes
content: Notes from collector, Allen Davis: Purchased by Davis in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire in 1960. Mask "Bo Nun Amuin" Baule. Cote d'Ivoire.
label: Notes
content: Carved from a single block of wood this mask with a forest buffalo's massive horns, a snake running down its face, and a crocodile's menacing toothy maw represents a powerful bush spirit. Worn horizontally on the head of a costumed dancer, the masquerader performs at the funerals of elder men.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 May 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Côte d'Ivoire, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Baule (Baoulé)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2082637
label: USNM Number
content: E435357-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 45.09 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 24.447 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 19.68 cm