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: "CUT FROM SOFT WOOD, NEARLY FLAT (SLIGHTLY HOLLOWED OUT IN BACK), PAINTED RED, BLACK, AND WHITE. NOT PERFORATED FOR ATTACHMENT OF FRINGE, ETC. THIS MASK WAS WRAPPED IN BANANA LEAVES UNTIL 1960. SUGGESTED IDENTIFICATIONS: PENDE (ROY SIEBER, OCT. 12, 1962); BAKUELE OR BIKENDE OF GABON-CONGO(B)-CAMEROON BORDER (WM. FAGG, MAR. 5, 1964). THE PENDE IDENTIFICATION FITS WELL WITH THE REST OF THE COLLECTION; NO PIECES COLLECTED BY VERNER IN THE KUELE AREA. REFERENCES CONT.: DE SOUSBERGHE, "L'ART PENDE", FIGS 73 AND 85 SHOW MANY FEATURES SIMILAR TO THIS MASK, AND THESE ITEMS ARE ATTRIBUTED TO THE PENDE OF THE KASAI."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Sep 2021
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: Pende
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: E204316-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 34 cm
label: Width
content: 20 cm