Finger mask; ivory or bone with bunches of feathers; uncolored; no handhold. Made of "fossil" ivory, and feathers.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Pastolik, Wade Hampton Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Pastolik
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Rudolph Neumann
Collection date:
1898
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:
Dancing. Probably used in the same dance as 2-6478 and held in the hand of a woman.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 4.8 centimeters and width 4.5 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 13-4409; 13-4379; 25-2320a, b., 2290a,b. Published: Ray, Pl. 34, text p. 200; and Ray, Pl. 11, text pp. 186-87. Tardy, Les Ivoires, p. 462 (see record copy).
Loans:
S1963-1964 #48: Life Sciences Bldg. Photo Lab (UC Berkeley) (January 9, 1964–January 29, 1964), S1967-1968 #118: Institution of American Indian Arts (April 11, 1968–July 15, 1968), and S1969-1970 #13: Museum of Fine Arts, Texas (August 7, 1969–January 2, 1970)