Mask

Museum number:
2-2862
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Finger mask; wooden; faded red and black paint; feathers missing; double finger hold.
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
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
Dancing.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 8.5 centimeters and width 5.8 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 13-4405. Published: Ray, Pl. 38, text p. 203.
Loans:
S1973-1974 #106: Art Institute of Chicago (June 12, 1974–September 9, 1974) and S1978-1979 #43: El Camino College (February 5, 1979–June 29, 1979)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-2862, described as Finger mask; wooden; faded red and black paint; feathers missing; double finger hold.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-2862, described as Finger mask; wooden; faded red and black paint; feathers missing; double finger hold.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-2862, described as Finger mask; wooden; faded red and black paint; feathers missing; double finger hold.

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