Gorgets
- Museum number:
- 2-6652a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21026652a@2cb
- Alternate number:
- x-2845 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Dancing gorgets; 2 segment-shaped boards, notched and painted; lunate shaped with 1 straight edge and curved and serrated outer edge; each has a single red-painted anthropomorphic figure and several black-painted whales.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Point Barrow, North Slope Borough, Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; Point Barrow
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- unknown
- Collection date:
- 1898
- Materials:
- Paint (coating)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Gorgets (ornaments)
- Function:
- 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Used in whaling ceremony dances. Worn on the chest with a certain kind of mask. According to ray, "These boards were hung on the chest... The giant man holding the whale in his hands was also carved as ivory sculpture when Ray and Murdoch were at Point
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- a)— width 45 centimeters and b)— width 44.3 centimeters
- Comment:
- Published: Ray, Eskimo Masks, Pl. 39 and pp. 203-04. Ray, Eskimo Art (1977); p. 86, fig. 12.
- Loans:
- S1964-1965 #56: Lowie Museum of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (February 24, 1965–March 29, 1965), S1969-1970 #13: Museum of Fine Arts, Texas (August 7, 1969–January 2, 1970), and S1973-1974 #65: Oakland Museum of California (March 8, 1974–April 24, 1974)
- Legacy documentation:
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