Object name: Mask / Culture or time period: Eskimo / Loans: S1990-1991 #23: Blackhawk Museums (March 20, 1991–August 16, 1994) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6442, described as Wooden mask - most likely of sculpin; painted teardrop shape with round face in lower part; face has crescent mouth with peg teeth, 1 round eye, smaller crescent opposite; white face, otherwise black with fingertip-applied white dots; red paint lining mouth, eyes, and all other openings; black designs on bottom half of face. 2 leg-shaped appendages attached to left side of face. Bird quill attachments and feather.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-4603, described as Wooden; painted white, gray-green, and red; numerous attachments (2 mammal heads, 4 paddle-like pieces at corners, 2 arms, 2 "doughnut-shaped" objects with 5 small paddle-like pieces attached); encircled by a hoop; baleen, sinew, rawhide, and fish skin bindings; face in center of mask. Includes 2-6627 described as "Round wooden ornament with three paddles." One paddle lost pre-1967. Damaged on loan 10/2/67; upper left flap bent and loosened, restored.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6920, described as Wooden; faded white paint, red squinted eye with white dots; feathers; rawhide tie. Note that in original Edmonds foto, mask had tassel in mouth.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6914, described as Representing sculpin; carved wood with peg with peg teeth; black spots; ptarmigan (?) feather on split quill; sinew or gut tie.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6465, described as Finger mask; wooden with feathers (1 missing); painted black forehead, white face, green-gray chin, red and white background.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6625, described as Wooden; possibly represents a spirit; painted green with red border and teeth, and a white section between mouth and nose; feather (some missing) and a strip of skin along top border.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6916, described as Wooden with feathers; representing an owl; white and black painting with red detail; small "beak"; sinew or rawhide tie. Center feather trimed and reset ca. one cm shorter due to damage (1972).

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-1303, described as Mask, wood. Woman's face on board with surrounding hoops; face and ears unpainted; hair, eyebrows, lines around the eye, tattoo marks black; 4 concentric hoops alternately black and red; single wood sickle-shaped carved labret tied on with a string; pierced ears; spruce root binding, fishskin tie. Damaged on loan 10/2/67. One hoop segment lost, 3 new bends in hoops.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6461, described as Finger mask; wooden; encircled with caribou hair; sinew binding; painted white with black and red detail (a face painted on the reverse side, also).

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6476, described as Wood; central anthropomorphic face with additional superimposed face; red, black and white pigment; hoop bound with spruce root is piereced with 2 feathers; caribou hair inserted in edge of central section; 2 inset legs, 1 inset arm (found 1972); other inset arm found 1974.