Finger mask

Museum number:
2-4591
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020004591
Alternate number:
x-737 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Finger mask; wooden; encircled with caribou hair; one long feather; nose like a beak; painted brown-red, white, and black; left half of handhold missing.
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
Materials:
Feather (material) and Hair (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:
1904
Context of use:
Dancing.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 6.8 centimeters and height 10.4 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 13-4407; 25-2318. Published: Ray; Pl. 33; text p. 200. Gunther, "The Alaska Native Arts Come Home", Centennial Exposition catalogue, May 27-Sept. 30, 1967, Fairbanks, Alaska, p. 37; "Masks of the Alaskan Eskimo" by Erna Gunther, The Dephian Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 3, Summer, 1967, p. 5. Exhibitied: Centennial Exposition, May 27-Sept. 30, 196, Fairbanks, Alaska.
Loans:
S1966-1967 #89: University of Alaska, Fairbanks (April 17, 1967–October 2, 1967)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Finger mask, accession number 2-4591, described as Finger mask; wooden; encircled with caribou hair; one long feather; nose like a beak; painted brown-red, white, and black; left half of handhold missing.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Finger mask, accession number 2-4591, described as Finger mask; wooden; encircled with caribou hair; one long feather; nose like a beak; painted brown-red, white, and black; left half of handhold missing.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Finger mask, accession number 2-4591, described as Finger mask; wooden; encircled with caribou hair; one long feather; nose like a beak; painted brown-red, white, and black; left half of handhold missing.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Finger mask, accession number 2-4591, described as Finger mask; wooden; encircled with caribou hair; one long feather; nose like a beak; painted brown-red, white, and black; left half of handhold missing.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Finger mask, accession number 2-4591, described as Finger mask; wooden; encircled with caribou hair; one long feather; nose like a beak; painted brown-red, white, and black; left half of handhold missing.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Finger mask, accession number 2-4591, described as Finger mask; wooden; encircled with caribou hair; one long feather; nose like a beak; painted brown-red, white, and black; left half of handhold missing.

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