Mask

Museum number:
2-2858
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020002858
Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Finger mask; wood with feathers and caribou hair (some missing); two concentric circles, smaller containing a face; painted red, black (blue?), and white; single finger hold.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Yukon, Yukon, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Lower Yukon
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 12.6 centimeters and width 8.8 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 13-4407. Published: Ray, Pl. 33, text p. 200.
Loans:
S1967-1968 #118: Institution of American Indian Arts (April 11, 1968–July 15, 1968)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-2858, described as Finger mask; wood with feathers and caribou hair (some missing); two concentric circles, smaller containing a face; painted red, black (blue?), and white; single finger hold.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-2858, described as Finger mask; wood with feathers and caribou hair (some missing); two concentric circles, smaller containing a face; painted red, black (blue?), and white; single finger hold.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-2858, described as Finger mask; wood with feathers and caribou hair (some missing); two concentric circles, smaller containing a face; painted red, black (blue?), and white; single finger hold.

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