Mask
- Museum number:
- 2-10870
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020010870
- Alternate number:
- 38 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.581
- Description:
- Bear head mask, decorated with strips of copper; dark brown glass eyes; wood painted black (?), red and white. Had fur cap attached, now long since destroyed by moths.
- Donor:
- William A. Setchell
- Collection place:
- Juneau, Juneau Borough, Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; Juneau
- Culture or time period:
- Tlingit
- Collector:
- William A. Setchell
- Collection date:
- 1899
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Masks (costume)
- Accession date:
- 1922
- Context of use:
- Dance mask.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 19 centimeters
- Comment:
- Photo: 15-21728. Published: Illustrated in R.H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology catalog, "Art of the Northwest Coast", Spring exhibit, March 26-October 17, 1965, p. 90; "The Alaska Native Arts Come Home" by Erna Gunther, Centennial Exposition catalog, May 27-September 30, 1967, Fairbanks, Alaska, p. 24; "The American West", Vol. VIII, No. 3, May, 1971, p. 19. Exhibited: Centennial Exposition, May 27-September 30, 1967, Fairbanks, Alaska.
- Loans:
- S1945-1946 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (March 11, 1946–October 28, 1955), S1951-1952 #1: University of California, Los Angeles (March 15, 1952–returned by 1957), S1963-1964 #9: UC San Francisco Medical Center (September 3, 1963–October 11, 1963), S1966-1967 #89: University of Alaska, Fairbanks (April 17, 1967–October 2, 1967), S1972-1973 #70: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (March 21, 1973–December 13, 1977), S1979-1980 #48: University of California, Davis (April 1, 1980–June 9, 1980), S2009-2010 #11b: SFO Museum (dates unknown), and S2009-2010 #11: SFO Museum (dates unknown)
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