Mask; wooden; anthropomorphic; painted red with black mustache, beard, eyebrows, and scalp line; inserted peg teeth; circlet of wolf hair attached to skin at top; one feather (separate), others missing; rawhide tie; forehead wrinkles.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1898
Materials:
Baleen and Fur (hair material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Dancing.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 19.5 centimeters and width 15.7 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 13-4382; 25-2293. Published: Ray, Pl. 26, text p. 197.