Wooden Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Dec 1968
label: Collection Date
content: Before 1900
name: label: Collector
content: Wayland Cuthbert
label: Donor Name
content: David R. Fair
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Slightly convex section of cedar wood carved into a human face with relief features in a shallow depression, small open oval mouth. Separate sections which would be attached for eyes are missing. Wood dry and friable."
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=711, retrieved 8-29-2012: Mask, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq). ggiinaquq "mask" - Language: Koniag Sugpiaq (Alaska Peninsula dialect) This cedar wood mask may be from Prince William Sound; it portrays a singing spirit face with nose and brows in the shape of a whale's tail. Separate eye pieces were once attached but now are missing. Whaling - carried out by kayak hunters using poisoned darts - was surrounded by shamanic ritual.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Southwest / Prince William Sound (not certain), Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Alutiiq (Sugpiaq)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 281587
label: USNM Number
content: E410427-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 33 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 22 cm