Context (Field collection)
Collected by Dr Louis Cobbett.
Event Date
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (References)
Similar to Z 5565.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Display)
On display in the New Ireland square case, Maudslay Hall, CUMAA, from 1990- November 2010.
Event Date 1990
Author: rachel hand

Description (CMS Description)
Ceremonial mask. The head is of a human being, the ear ornaments being plainly indicated. The eyes are of operculum shell. Helmet decorated with coloured vegetable fibres.
Event Date 20/7/1995
Author: maa

Conservation ()
81.88 |
Event Date 1/3/2016
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
From Dr Louis Cobbett, an English pathologist and University Lecturer in Bacteriology, 1907-1929.

The 1946-7 Annual report notes 'Cobbett, the late Dr L.: Large collection of archaeological and ethnological objects, mostly from Oceania and Africa, but including pottery vessels from Peru and Mexico'.

The register notes 'Cobbett Coll.' for 1947.270-275; 1947.279-301; 1947.407-8 and 'Cobbett bequest' for 1947.476- 485; 1947.620-625; 1947.638.
However, 1947.5- 18 is recorded as 'd.d. [donated] Dr L. Cobbett' suggesting some of the collection may have been gifted before his death in March 1947.

Records have been annotated to follow the details given in the register but the exact timing and status of the donation and whether it was gifted or bequested is not fully clear.
Event Date 23/10/2020
Author: rachel hand