Mask

Museum number:
2-72098
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020072098
Accession number:
Acc.4743
Description:
Alaskan Mask; hand carved wooden, painted white mask; feathers, one on each side, protruding and set next to eyes. Mask is in shape of a turtle with facial features painted on in blue and red and eye and nostril holes carved in. Legs of turtle decorated in red and blue paint, head same. Wooden handle curves around top half of mask, nailed in at sides.
Donor:
Robert E. Shore
Collection place:
Bethel, Bethel Census Area, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Bethel, Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Robert E. Shore
Collection date:
1973-1974
Materials:
Feather (material), Paint (coating), and Wood (plant 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:
August 24, 2004
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 26 centimeters and width 24 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Mask, accession number 2-72098, described as Alaskan Mask; hand carved wooden, painted white mask; feathers, one on each side, protruding and set next to eyes. Mask is in shape of a turtle with facial features painted on in blue and red and eye and nostril holes carved in. Legs of turtle decorated in red and blue paint, head same. Wooden handle curves around top half of mask, nailed in at sides.Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Mask, accession number 2-72098, described as Alaskan Mask; hand carved wooden, painted white mask; feathers, one on each side, protruding and set next to eyes. Mask is in shape of a turtle with facial features painted on in blue and red and eye and nostril holes carved in. Legs of turtle decorated in red and blue paint, head same. Wooden handle curves around top half of mask, nailed in at sides.Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Mask, accession number 2-72098, described as Alaskan Mask; hand carved wooden, painted white mask; feathers, one on each side, protruding and set next to eyes. Mask is in shape of a turtle with facial features painted on in blue and red and eye and nostril holes carved in. Legs of turtle decorated in red and blue paint, head same. Wooden handle curves around top half of mask, nailed in at sides.Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Mask, accession number 2-72098, described as Alaskan Mask; hand carved wooden, painted white mask; feathers, one on each side, protruding and set next to eyes. Mask is in shape of a turtle with facial features painted on in blue and red and eye and nostril holes carved in. Legs of turtle decorated in red and blue paint, head same. Wooden handle curves around top half of mask, nailed in at sides.

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