Painted Wooden Mask - False Face Style But Atypical
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: This mask is one of a group about which curator Dr. William C. Sturtevant wrote a memo May 21, 1971. In the memo he wrote: "None of the masks ... should be selected by anyone wishing to exhibit or illustrate False-Faces which are in any sense typical. All the masks here are stylistically very divergent. None shows any signs of having been used. The wooden ones belong to a type, represented also by a few examples in other collections, which undoubtedly represents the output of a single craftsman carving masks solely for sale around 1900. No masks of this type have yet been located with adequate documentation, but the very divergent style and lack of signs of use lead one to suppose that the maker lived at Tuscarora or some other Christian Iroquois community where False Faces were not used. ..."
label: Notes
content: Extremely atypical in style; photos of this mask should not be used to represent traditional False Face masks. - Dr. William Sturtevant, Curator of North American Ethnology, 1974.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, New York, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Iroquois (Haudenosaunee)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E360981-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask