Mask sculpture
date: label: Date created
content: 1968
name: label: Culture/People
content: Iñupiaq
label: Artist/Maker
content: Joseph E. Senungetuk (Inusuyauq Sinuyituq/Joseph Engasongwok Senungetuk), Iñupiaq, 1940-2023 and Peter John Seeganna (Peter J. Seeganna), Bering Strait Iñupiaq [King Island], 1938-1974
label: IACB source
content: Indian Arts and Crafts Board Office, Sitka, Alaska (IACB Office, Sitka, Alaska)
label: Previous owner
content: Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
label: IACB source
content: Indian Arts and Crafts Board Demonstration Workshop (Sitka, Alaska) (IACB Demonstration Workshop)
notes: label: Collection History
content: Made as prototypes for larger sculptures produced as part of the Fairbanks Civic Center in Fairbanks, Alaska, for the 1967 Alaska Centennial; formerly in the collection held by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board Office in Sitka, Alaska, which included many pieces produced and acquired during IACB demonstration-workshops held in Sitka between 1962 and 1968; transferred to the IACB Headquarters collection in Washington, DC, in 1969; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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place: label: Place
content: Sitka; Sealaska Native Corporation; Alaska; USA (inferred)
label: Archipelago
content: Alexander Archipelago
label: Island Name
content: Baranof Island
setName: label: See related items
content: Iñupiaq
label: See related items
content: Sculpture/Carving/Figures
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 25/9261
label: Barcode
content: 259261.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sculpture/Carving/Figures
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Mask sculpture
label: Media/Materials
content: Yellow cedar, paint
label: Techniques
content: Carved, painted
label: Dimensions
content: 30.7 x 30.7 x 5 cm