Wooden; wooden; anthropomorphic; face encircled by two hoops, attached with sinew and skin; face painted white and bluish (worn) with red detail; labrets and earrings.
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
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:
width 16.7 centimeters and height 21 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 13-4375; 25-2286. Published: Ray, Pl. 23, text p. 196.
Loans:
S1945-1946 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (March 11, 1946–October 28, 1955), S1951-1952 #1: University of California, Los Angeles (March 15, 1952–returned by 1957), S1967-1968 #118: Institution of American Indian Arts (April 11, 1968–July 15, 1968), and S1969-1970 #13: Museum of Fine Arts, Texas (August 7, 1969–January 2, 1970)