Mask

Museum number:
2-2865
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Finger mask; wood with rawhide thong; sinew and commercial string binding; white painted background with black and red circles and teardrops; one fingerhold; feathers and caribou hair missing.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Cape Romanof, Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Cape Romanof
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
Dancing.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 8.1 centimeters and width 4.4 centimeters
Comment:
Published: Ray, Pl. 35, text p. 201. References: Ray Pl. 66:2 and text p. 221; Nelson Pl. CV:2, p. 414.
Loans:
S1969-1970 #13: Museum of Fine Arts, Texas (August 7, 1969–January 2, 1970)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-2865, described as Finger mask; wood with rawhide thong; sinew and commercial string binding; white painted background with black and red circles and teardrops; one fingerhold; feathers and caribou hair missing.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-2865, described as Finger mask; wood with rawhide thong; sinew and commercial string binding; white painted background with black and red circles and teardrops; one fingerhold; feathers and caribou hair missing.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-2865, described as Finger mask; wood with rawhide thong; sinew and commercial string binding; white painted background with black and red circles and teardrops; one fingerhold; feathers and caribou hair missing.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-2865, described as Finger mask; wood with rawhide thong; sinew and commercial string binding; white painted background with black and red circles and teardrops; one fingerhold; feathers and caribou hair missing.

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