Mask

Museum number:
2-30942
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020030942
Accession number:
Acc.1931
Description:
Dance mask resembling puffin (either Horned Puffin [Fratercula corniculata] or Tufted Puffin [Lunda cirrhata]); painted green, black and red.
Donor:
James P. Heath, Phyllis Heath Walker, and Ruth Mary Heath
Collection place:
Southeast Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Southeast Alaska
Culture or time period:
Haida and Tlingit
Collector:
Harold Heath
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Accession date:
1964
Context of use:
Dance mask.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 28 centimeters
Loans:
S1967-1968 #126: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/Vera Mae Frederickson (April 22, 1968–April 23, 1968), S1970-1971 #49: Department of Anthropology (Wichita State Univ.) (November 24, 1970–December 1, 1971), S1972-1973 #70: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (March 21, 1973–December 13, 1977), S1988-1989 #8: Art Gallery (Sonoma State Univ.) (September 7, 1988–October 25, 1988), S2009-2010 #11b: SFO Museum (dates unknown), and S2009-2010 #11: SFO Museum (dates unknown)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 8 titled Mask, accession number 2-30942, described as Dance mask resembling puffin (either Horned Puffin [Fratercula corniculata] or Tufted Puffin [Lunda cirrhata]); painted green, black and red.Hearst Museum object 2 of 8 titled Mask, accession number 2-30942, described as Dance mask resembling puffin (either Horned Puffin [Fratercula corniculata] or Tufted Puffin [Lunda cirrhata]); painted green, black and red.Hearst Museum object 3 of 8 titled Mask, accession number 2-30942, described as Dance mask resembling puffin (either Horned Puffin [Fratercula corniculata] or Tufted Puffin [Lunda cirrhata]); painted green, black and red.Hearst Museum object 4 of 8 titled Mask, accession number 2-30942, described as Dance mask resembling puffin (either Horned Puffin [Fratercula corniculata] or Tufted Puffin [Lunda cirrhata]); painted green, black and red.Hearst Museum object 5 of 8 titled Mask, accession number 2-30942, described as Dance mask resembling puffin (either Horned Puffin [Fratercula corniculata] or Tufted Puffin [Lunda cirrhata]); painted green, black and red.Hearst Museum object 6 of 8 titled Mask, accession number 2-30942, described as Dance mask resembling puffin (either Horned Puffin [Fratercula corniculata] or Tufted Puffin [Lunda cirrhata]); painted green, black and red.Hearst Museum object 7 of 8 titled Mask, accession number 2-30942, described as Dance mask resembling puffin (either Horned Puffin [Fratercula corniculata] or Tufted Puffin [Lunda cirrhata]); painted green, black and red.Hearst Museum object 8 of 8 titled Mask, accession number 2-30942, described as Dance mask resembling puffin (either Horned Puffin [Fratercula corniculata] or Tufted Puffin [Lunda cirrhata]); painted green, black and red.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-30942, described as Dance mask resembling puffin (either Horned Puffin [Fratercula corniculata] or Tufted Puffin [Lunda cirrhata]); painted green, black and red.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-30942, described as Dance mask resembling puffin (either Horned Puffin [Fratercula corniculata] or Tufted Puffin [Lunda cirrhata]); painted green, black and red.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-30942, described as Dance mask resembling puffin (either Horned Puffin [Fratercula corniculata] or Tufted Puffin [Lunda cirrhata]); painted green, black and red.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-30942, described as Dance mask resembling puffin (either Horned Puffin [Fratercula corniculata] or Tufted Puffin [Lunda cirrhata]); painted green, black and red.

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