Description (Labels & Markings)
'2602' written in pencil on inside of mask.
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: A = Ibonodike (Mask)
B= Wonodike
In different hand writing "These two mask are almost identical. A is drawn on the other side of the card. B differs in that the teeth are spaced further apart, the crests stand straight and red and purple paint has been added to the hair. The face area and the features are smaller, but there is a greater hair area. It also has more decoration on the face - three lines radiating out from each corner of the mouth, each 'feathered' at the end. The faces of these masks are white, the hair and the pupils of the eyes black. The back of the head is covered with rows of low relief squares coloured black.'

Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
See E 1910.118 and E 1913.3 records for further details about the Thomas Collection from Nigeria. [T.Cotterill]
Event Date 7/5/2001
Author: maa

Publication (Online Only)
Basu, Paul (2018) Meeting themselves again. An object-oriented perspective? . ; . https://re-entanglements.net/object-oriented-perspective/?fbclid=IwAR2XfOVA_90O-PC4eo6fexBAjlC8RBcceI-8W-hdsOBtCxF4go9h4WnXk9Y
Event Date 2018
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Field collection)
These two masks were photographed by Thomas during fieldwork. The photograph is held by the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, accession number RAI.400.17528.
Event Date 26/11/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Large helmet mask with protruding eyes and three crests of hair. The ears are high on the sides of the head and are 'C' shaped and the teeth are protruding and cut through into the helmet like a grill. There are holes drilled through the bottom edge all around the circumference presumably for the attachment of a costume. There are holes drilled into the hair and the whole is painted with white, black, brown and red pigment.
Event Date 2/8/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Amendments / updates)
Record updated as part of the Museum Affordances project 2018-2020

Event Date 2/8/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Large, carved wooden helmet mask, with three notched crests of hair over the top and down the back of the head, painted black. There are black, 'C' shaped ears high on the sides of the head. The face is painted white, and has protruding eyes with black pupils, a rectangular nose with drilled holes for nostrils, and an open mouth with protruding teeth. There are holes drilled all around the bottom edge, likely for the attachment of a costume; there are also six pairs of holes drilled into the top.
Event Date 29/9/2021
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff