Small Finger Masks, For Drawing
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "37126-30. 6 SPECIMENS. #37129 CONTAINS 2 ...." FROM CARD: "1/83 SITES INUA LOAN. 37129(A) SMILING FACE WITH CARVED OUT TEETH, NOSTRILS, AND EYES. SMALL PEGS ABOVE EYES. CARIBOU HAIR, 37129 (B) RIGHT FINGER HOLE BROKEN. SMILING TEETH CARVED OUT ON ONE SIDE. WOODEN PEGS ABOVE EYES. CARIBOU HAIR."
label: Notes
content: Illustrated in Fitzhugh, William W., Julie Hollowell, and Aron L. Crowell. 2009. Gifts from the Ancient Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, CT. Fig. 19, p 178. Identified there as Yup'ik Tuunraq finger masks, wood, paint, and caribou fur; Diam. 8 cm. "Yup'ik girls and women often danced wearing small finger masks bearing the faces of deities fringed with ruffs of caribou fur. This pair has the image of a beastly semi-human tuunraq."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Kuskokwim Bay, Lower, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E37129-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Finger Mask