Mask

Museum number:
2-6920
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020006920
Alternate number:
13-4396 (associated catalog number), 25-2307 (associated catalog number), and 33 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.128
Description:
Wooden; faded white paint, red squinted eye with white dots; feathers; rawhide tie. Note that in original Edmonds foto, mask had tassel in mouth.
Donor:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection place:
St. Michael, St. Michael Island, Nome Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; St. Michael
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection date:
1890-1899
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Dancing mask said to be the bad spirit of the mountain.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 17 centimeters and width 13.3 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 13-4396; 25-2307. Published: Ray, Pl. VII, text 175-76. Also ill. p. 134 Ray (ed.) The Eskimo of St. Michael and Vicinity as Related by H.M.W. Edmonds.
Loans:
S1945-1946 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (March 11, 1946–October 28, 1955), S1967-1968 #126: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/Vera Mae Frederickson (April 22, 1968–April 23, 1968), S1969-1970 #13: Museum of Fine Arts, Texas (August 7, 1969–January 2, 1970), S1990-1991 #23: Blackhawk Museums (March 20, 1991–August 16, 1994), and S2017-2018 #3: Heard Museum (October 29, 2018–February 18, 2019)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 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 2 of 2 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.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with 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.Documentation associated with 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.Documentation associated with 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.Documentation associated with 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.

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