Wood, painted red cheeks, border; black eyebrows and eye outlines; encircled by part of double hoop (feathers, caribou hair and remainder of hoop broken off); sinew and fishskin ties pierce the cheek. Also made with spruce root. Pencilled on back of mask: "Kosorefsky Yukon River".
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Kosorefski, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Kosorefski
Culture or time period:
Ingalik
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Taxon:
Rangifer tarandus caribou
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
Dance mask.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 21.6 centimeters and height 31.5 centimeters
Comment:
Made and used by men in kashim. "Kozherevsky, (Osgood''s Koserefski) is old Ingalik Indian village on the left bank of the Yukon, opposite Holy Cross. Osgood, Plate I, illustrates similar mask in interior of Shageluk "kashim" (Shageluk, Kosorefsky and Anvik are all neighboring Ingalik villages). The photo in Osgood was taken by Rev. John Wight Chapman, missionary at Anvik from 1887 - 1930." Photo: 13-4360; 25-2272. Published: Ray, Pl. 4; text p. 182. References: Osgood, Cornelius: "Ingalik Material Culture", Pl. I (bottom) and see above.
Loans:
S1951-1952 #1: University of California, Los Angeles (March 15, 1952–returned by 1957) and S1964-1965 #9: University of California, Davis (September 3, 1964–January 1965)