Mask

Museum number:

2-6914

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Alternate number:

13-4390 (associated catalog number), 19 (original number), and 25-2301 (associated catalog number)

Accession number:

Acc.128

Object count:

1

Description:

Representing sculpin; carved wood with peg with peg teeth; black spots; ptarmigan (?) feather on split quill; sinew or gut tie.

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

Materials:

Feathers and Wood (plant material)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Masks (costume)

Accession date:

1904

Context of use:

Dance mask. According to John Taxsac as possibly spotted seal.

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Dimensions:

whole— length 19.25 inches, width 14.5 centimeters, height 20.4 centimeters, whole— width 17 inches, and whole— depth 2 inches

Comment:

Photo: 13-4390; 25-2301. Published: Ray, pl. IX, text p. 177; ill. Creating from Many Cultures, Sta. Clara Office of Education. Also ill. p. 134 Ray (ed.) The Esk. of St. Michael and vicinity as related by H.M.W. Edmonds.

Loans:

S1945-1946 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (March 11, 1946–October 28, 1955), S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960), S1960-1961 #15: California State University, Sacramento/Dorothea J. Theodoratus (August 20, 1960–July 3, 1961), S1969-1970 #13: Museum of Fine Arts, Texas (August 7, 1969–January 2, 1970), S1990-1991 #23: Blackhawk Museums (March 20, 1991–August 16, 1994), S2009-2010 #11b: SFO Museum (dates unknown), S2009-2010 #11: SFO Museum (dates unknown), and S2017-2018 #3: Heard Museum (October 29, 2018–February 18, 2019)

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