Wooden; anthropomorphic; painted black forehead, nose, mustache, red chin and border; feathers along border, and one small feather from head; 5 holes, evenly spaced, on the back board.
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)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
Dancing. Said to have a song "ya kaghokhuma" (You re going to fly.)
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 15.3 centimeters and height 15.3 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 13-4361; 25-2273. Published: Ray, Pl. 7, text p. 185.
Loans:
S2009-2010 #11b: SFO Museum (dates unknown) and S2009-2010 #11: SFO Museum (dates unknown)