Mask

Museum number:
2-5849
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020005849
Alternate number:
x-939 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Wooden; faded red paint, the rest of the wood may have been blackened by smoke; double row of small wooden pegs inserted down center of face; may represent an owl; may have had feathers inserted in small holes at top; commerical string tie.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Andreafsky, Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Andreafsky
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1898
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 13 centimeters and height 18 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 13-4370; 25-2282. Published: Ray, Pl. 22, text pp. 195-96; Blaker 1965, Pl. 12A.
Loans:
S1951-1952 #1: University of California, Los Angeles (March 15, 1952–returned by 1957)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-5849, described as Wooden; faded red paint, the rest of the wood may have been blackened by smoke; double row of small wooden pegs inserted down center of face; may represent an owl; may have had feathers inserted in small holes at top; commerical string tie.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-5849, described as Wooden; faded red paint, the rest of the wood may have been blackened by smoke; double row of small wooden pegs inserted down center of face; may represent an owl; may have had feathers inserted in small holes at top; commerical string tie.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-5849, described as Wooden; faded red paint, the rest of the wood may have been blackened by smoke; double row of small wooden pegs inserted down center of face; may represent an owl; may have had feathers inserted in small holes at top; commerical string tie.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-5849, described as Wooden; faded red paint, the rest of the wood may have been blackened by smoke; double row of small wooden pegs inserted down center of face; may represent an owl; may have had feathers inserted in small holes at top; commerical string tie.

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