Description (Physical description)
Mask (Odumodo).
Note in different handwriting reads: 'Of very light wood. Hardly any depth on inside of mask. Split in a few places'.

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Author: maa

Context (Auction / Sale)
Purchased using money from Prof. A.A. Bevan’s subscription to the Museum’s Accessions Fund.
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Labels & Markings)
Stump of luggage tag originally attached with string now bagged and stored with mask. No writing remains.
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Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Labels & Markings)
Written on back of mask in pencil: '2733'
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Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Related Documents)
NB. Black and white photograph of object on back of catalogue card.
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Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Northcote W. Thomas in Edo State, Agenibode (now Agene(g)bode) town. The inhabitants belong to the Edo ethnic group, and also identify themselves further as Yekhee people. The language they speak is also referred to as Etsako. See Blench, R. M., 1995. The Work of N.W. Thomas as Government Anthropologist in Nigeria. The Nigerian Field, 60, pp.29.

Event Date
Author: Remke van der Velden

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

Description (Physical description)
Cracks in the wood down the length of the mask. [K. Sutton]
Event Date 12/6/2001
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Other)
Some stylistic similarities to Z 11911, Z 11913, Z 11909, Z 11914, Z 11916 and Z 11918B.
[Information provided by Dr Ohioma Pogoson, Honorary Curator of the Museum of the Institute for African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. January 2013.]
Event Date 30/1/2013
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Very large unusual sized mask of extremely light wood. Very simple representation of a face. The forehead and nose are similar to Z 11911, Z 11913 and Z11918B. The eyes are pierced, clearly for the wearer’s view. Running from the sides of the nose to the edge of the face are lines that could pass for cat’s whiskers face marks. Sides of this mask are decorated with cross hatchings. Holes run along the edge of the mask for fibres to attach to, indicating it was used. The mouth and ears are not represented. The face tapers down like the other masks above but in a more rounded fashion. Unlike other masks, this must have been carved from a large trunk, which has been scooped out. Simple but expressive mask.
[Information provided by Dr Ohioma Pogoson, Honorary Curator of the Museum of the Institute for African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. January 2013.]

Event Date 30/1/2013
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Large, carved wooden face mask with prominent nose and forehead. The face has a projecting forehead at the top, with two eye holes drilled wither side of a long, rounded nose with nostrils indicated. There is no mouth, but there are incised scarification lines radiating from either side of the nose. There are also some scratched marks in the surface one one side of the nose which may be deliberate. There are five holes drilled around the edge of the mask and the front is stained with a white pigment. There are several long vertical cracks through the face and insect debris in the holes and cracks. There are signs of historical water damage. The rear shows several areas of more recent damage, and there is a hole drilled near the bottom probably for a mount.
Event Date 30/10/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

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

Event Date 30/10/2018
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Display)
Previous display history indicated by screw hole in rear which was presumably made for a mount. There is a wooden mount stored in the same box, 25.A.34, which may be for this mask.
Event Date 30/10/2018
Author: Katrina Dring