Mask

Museum number:
2-6917
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
31 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.128
Description:
Wooden; representing wolf; forehead and nose painted red with black dots; outline of teeth and nostrils painted red; rawhide tie. Snout bristles noted lost 1968.
Donor:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection place:
St. Michael, St. Michael Island, Nome Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; St. Michael
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection date:
1890-1899
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Dancing. Identified as ogruk by John Taxsac.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 11.5 centimeters and height 21.2 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 13-4393 a, b; 25-2304. Published: Ray, Pl. 14, text 189-191. Also ill. p. 133 Ray (ed.) H.M.W. Edmonds' Report on the Eskimos of St. Michael and Vicinity.
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), S1964-1965 #9: University of California, Davis (September 3, 1964–January 1965), S1967-1968 #118: Institution of American Indian Arts (April 11, 1968–July 15, 1968), S1969-1970 #13: Museum of Fine Arts, Texas (August 7, 1969–January 2, 1970), and S1973-1974 #65: Oakland Museum of California (March 8, 1974–April 24, 1974)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Mask, accession number 2-6917, described as Wooden; representing wolf; forehead and nose painted red with black dots; outline of teeth and nostrils painted red; rawhide tie. Snout bristles noted lost 1968.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Mask, accession number 2-6917, described as Wooden; representing wolf; forehead and nose painted red with black dots; outline of teeth and nostrils painted red; rawhide tie. Snout bristles noted lost 1968.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6917, described as Wooden; representing wolf; forehead and nose painted red with black dots; outline of teeth and nostrils painted red; rawhide tie. Snout bristles noted lost 1968.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6917, described as Wooden; representing wolf; forehead and nose painted red with black dots; outline of teeth and nostrils painted red; rawhide tie. Snout bristles noted lost 1968.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6917, described as Wooden; representing wolf; forehead and nose painted red with black dots; outline of teeth and nostrils painted red; rawhide tie. Snout bristles noted lost 1968.

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