Mask

Museum number:
2-6926
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
13-4398 (associated catalog number) and 25-2309 (associated catalog number)
Accession number:
Acc.128
Description:
Wooden; forehead painted black with white dots and red border; seven goose feathers; braided sinew attaching feathers; strings of orange-dyed seal intestine (?) hand from top border, fur tassles stream from mouth.
Donor:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection place:
St. Michael, St. Michael Island, Nome Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; St. Michael
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection date:
1889-1890
Materials:
Feathers, Pigment, and Wood (plant material)
Taxon:
Anatidae
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Dancing mask said to represent the spirit of drift wood.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
whole— width 15.5 inches, whole— depth 7 inches, height 25 centimeters, width 14.4 centimeters, and whole— height 16 inches
Comment:
Photo: 13-4398; 25-2309. Published: Ray, Pl. VIII, text p. 176. ill. Ray (ed.) The Eskimo of St. Michael and Vicinity as Related by H.M.W. Edmonds, p. 134. Also Ray, Esk. Art, fig. 32.
Loans:
S1945-1946 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (March 11, 1946–October 28, 1955), S1969-1970 #13: Museum of Fine Arts, Texas (August 7, 1969–January 2, 1970), and S2017-2018 #3: Heard Museum (October 29, 2018–February 18, 2019)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Mask, accession number 2-6926, described as Wooden; forehead painted black with white dots and red border; seven goose feathers; braided sinew attaching feathers; strings of orange-dyed seal intestine (?) hand from top border, fur tassles stream from mouth.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Mask, accession number 2-6926, described as Wooden; forehead painted black with white dots and red border; seven goose feathers; braided sinew attaching feathers; strings of orange-dyed seal intestine (?) hand from top border, fur tassles stream from mouth.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6926, described as Wooden; forehead painted black with white dots and red border; seven goose feathers; braided sinew attaching feathers; strings of orange-dyed seal intestine (?) hand from top border, fur tassles stream from mouth.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6926, described as Wooden; forehead painted black with white dots and red border; seven goose feathers; braided sinew attaching feathers; strings of orange-dyed seal intestine (?) hand from top border, fur tassles stream from mouth.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6926, described as Wooden; forehead painted black with white dots and red border; seven goose feathers; braided sinew attaching feathers; strings of orange-dyed seal intestine (?) hand from top border, fur tassles stream from mouth.

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