Mask

Museum number:
2-6479
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
13-4386 (associated catalog number), 25-2297 (associated catalog number), and x-2672 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Wooden; painted white with black eyebrows; one eye squinted.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
St. Michael, St. Michael Island, Nome Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; St. Michael
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Rudolph Neumann
Collection date:
1880-1890
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
According to Ray, it may represent a spirit rather than a man. For dancing.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 23.9 centimeters, whole— length 9.25 inches, whole— width 6.5 inches, width 17.1 centimeters, and whole— depth 2.25 inches
Comment:
Photo: 13-4386; 25-2297. Published: Ray, Pl. 21, text p. 198.
Loans:
S1951-1952 #1: University of California, Los Angeles (March 15, 1952–returned by 1957), S1964-1965 #9: University of California, Davis (September 3, 1964–January 1965), S1967-1968 #126: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/Vera Mae Frederickson (April 22, 1968–April 23, 1968), and S2017-2018 #3: Heard Museum (October 29, 2018–February 18, 2019)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Mask, accession number 2-6479, described as Wooden; painted white with black eyebrows; one eye squinted.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Mask, accession number 2-6479, described as Wooden; painted white with black eyebrows; one eye squinted.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6479, described as Wooden; painted white with black eyebrows; one eye squinted.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6479, described as Wooden; painted white with black eyebrows; one eye squinted.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6479, described as Wooden; painted white with black eyebrows; one eye squinted.

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