Mask

Museum number:
2-1303
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
13-2002a, b (associated catalog number), 13-4358 (associated catalog number), 15-18904-5 (associated catalog number), and 25-2270a-c (associated catalog number)
Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Mask, wood. Woman's face on board with surrounding hoops; face and ears unpainted; hair, eyebrows, lines around the eye, tattoo marks black; 4 concentric hoops alternately black and red; single wood sickle-shaped carved labret tied on with a string; pierced ears; spruce root binding, fishskin tie. Damaged on loan 10/2/67. One hoop segment lost, 3 new bends in hoops.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Yukon, Yukon, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Lower Yukon
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Materials:
Pigment and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
Identified in Ray as the woman in the moon and said to be a realistic portrait of a Unalit woman.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
whole— height 25.5 inches, height 64.8 centimeters, whole— width 23 inches, whole— depth 3.5 inches, and width 56.5 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 13-2002a, b; 15-18904-5; 25-2270a-c; 13-4358. Published: Ray, Pl. IV and dust jacket; text pp. 172-74. Gunther, E., "The Alaska Native Arts Come Home," Centennial exposition cat., 1967, Fairbanks, Alaska, p. 30. "Masks of the Alaskan Eskimo" by Erna Gunther, The Delphian Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 3, Summer 1967, p. 4. Exhibited: Centennial Exposition, May 27 - Sept. 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), S1966-1967 #89: University of Alaska, Fairbanks (April 17, 1967–October 2, 1967), S1990-1991 #23: Blackhawk Museums (March 20, 1991–August 16, 1994), S1992-1993 #8: Blackhawk Museums (November 17, 1992–unknown), and S2017-2018 #3: Heard Museum (October 29, 2018–February 18, 2019)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 10 titled Mask, accession number 2-1303, described as Mask, wood. Woman's face on board with surrounding hoops; face and ears unpainted; hair, eyebrows, lines around the eye, tattoo marks black; 4 concentric hoops alternately black and red; single wood sickle-shaped carved labret tied on with a string; pierced ears; spruce root binding, fishskin tie. Damaged on loan 10/2/67. One hoop segment lost, 3 new bends in hoops.Hearst Museum object 2 of 10 titled Mask, accession number 2-1303, described as Mask, wood. Woman's face on board with surrounding hoops; face and ears unpainted; hair, eyebrows, lines around the eye, tattoo marks black; 4 concentric hoops alternately black and red; single wood sickle-shaped carved labret tied on with a string; pierced ears; spruce root binding, fishskin tie. Damaged on loan 10/2/67. One hoop segment lost, 3 new bends in hoops.Hearst Museum object 3 of 10 titled Mask, accession number 2-1303, described as Mask, wood. Woman's face on board with surrounding hoops; face and ears unpainted; hair, eyebrows, lines around the eye, tattoo marks black; 4 concentric hoops alternately black and red; single wood sickle-shaped carved labret tied on with a string; pierced ears; spruce root binding, fishskin tie. Damaged on loan 10/2/67. One hoop segment lost, 3 new bends in hoops.Hearst Museum object 4 of 10 titled Mask, accession number 2-1303, described as Mask, wood. Woman's face on board with surrounding hoops; face and ears unpainted; hair, eyebrows, lines around the eye, tattoo marks black; 4 concentric hoops alternately black and red; single wood sickle-shaped carved labret tied on with a string; pierced ears; spruce root binding, fishskin tie. Damaged on loan 10/2/67. One hoop segment lost, 3 new bends in hoops.Hearst Museum object 5 of 10 titled Mask, accession number 2-1303, described as Mask, wood. Woman's face on board with surrounding hoops; face and ears unpainted; hair, eyebrows, lines around the eye, tattoo marks black; 4 concentric hoops alternately black and red; single wood sickle-shaped carved labret tied on with a string; pierced ears; spruce root binding, fishskin tie. Damaged on loan 10/2/67. One hoop segment lost, 3 new bends in hoops.Hearst Museum object 6 of 10 titled Mask, accession number 2-1303, described as Mask, wood. Woman's face on board with surrounding hoops; face and ears unpainted; hair, eyebrows, lines around the eye, tattoo marks black; 4 concentric hoops alternately black and red; single wood sickle-shaped carved labret tied on with a string; pierced ears; spruce root binding, fishskin tie. Damaged on loan 10/2/67. One hoop segment lost, 3 new bends in hoops.Hearst Museum object 7 of 10 titled Mask, accession number 2-1303, described as Mask, wood. Woman's face on board with surrounding hoops; face and ears unpainted; hair, eyebrows, lines around the eye, tattoo marks black; 4 concentric hoops alternately black and red; single wood sickle-shaped carved labret tied on with a string; pierced ears; spruce root binding, fishskin tie. Damaged on loan 10/2/67. One hoop segment lost, 3 new bends in hoops.Hearst Museum object 8 of 10 titled Mask, accession number 2-1303, described as Mask, wood. Woman's face on board with surrounding hoops; face and ears unpainted; hair, eyebrows, lines around the eye, tattoo marks black; 4 concentric hoops alternately black and red; single wood sickle-shaped carved labret tied on with a string; pierced ears; spruce root binding, fishskin tie. Damaged on loan 10/2/67. One hoop segment lost, 3 new bends in hoops.Hearst Museum object 9 of 10 titled Mask, accession number 2-1303, described as Mask, wood. Woman's face on board with surrounding hoops; face and ears unpainted; hair, eyebrows, lines around the eye, tattoo marks black; 4 concentric hoops alternately black and red; single wood sickle-shaped carved labret tied on with a string; pierced ears; spruce root binding, fishskin tie. Damaged on loan 10/2/67. One hoop segment lost, 3 new bends in hoops.Hearst Museum object 10 of 10 titled Mask, accession number 2-1303, described as Mask, wood. Woman's face on board with surrounding hoops; face and ears unpainted; hair, eyebrows, lines around the eye, tattoo marks black; 4 concentric hoops alternately black and red; single wood sickle-shaped carved labret tied on with a string; pierced ears; spruce root binding, fishskin tie. Damaged on loan 10/2/67. One hoop segment lost, 3 new bends in hoops.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-1303, described as Mask, wood. Woman's face on board with surrounding hoops; face and ears unpainted; hair, eyebrows, lines around the eye, tattoo marks black; 4 concentric hoops alternately black and red; single wood sickle-shaped carved labret tied on with a string; pierced ears; spruce root binding, fishskin tie. Damaged on loan 10/2/67. One hoop segment lost, 3 new bends in hoops.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-1303, described as Mask, wood. Woman's face on board with surrounding hoops; face and ears unpainted; hair, eyebrows, lines around the eye, tattoo marks black; 4 concentric hoops alternately black and red; single wood sickle-shaped carved labret tied on with a string; pierced ears; spruce root binding, fishskin tie. Damaged on loan 10/2/67. One hoop segment lost, 3 new bends in hoops.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-1303, described as Mask, wood. Woman's face on board with surrounding hoops; face and ears unpainted; hair, eyebrows, lines around the eye, tattoo marks black; 4 concentric hoops alternately black and red; single wood sickle-shaped carved labret tied on with a string; pierced ears; spruce root binding, fishskin tie. Damaged on loan 10/2/67. One hoop segment lost, 3 new bends in hoops.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-1303, described as Mask, wood. Woman's face on board with surrounding hoops; face and ears unpainted; hair, eyebrows, lines around the eye, tattoo marks black; 4 concentric hoops alternately black and red; single wood sickle-shaped carved labret tied on with a string; pierced ears; spruce root binding, fishskin tie. Damaged on loan 10/2/67. One hoop segment lost, 3 new bends in hoops.

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