Mask; wooden; anthropomorphic; painted red with black mustache, beard, eyebrows, and scalp line; inserted peg teeth; circlet of wolf hair attached to skin at top; feathers missing; rawhide tie.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1880-1890
Materials:
Fur (hair material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Dancing.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 17.4 centimeters and width 12.4 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 13-4381; 25-2292. Published: Ray, Pl. 25, text p. 197.