Masks Worn At Feasts For The Dead
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1882
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SMALL WITH RED AND BLACK TRIM - SLIT EYES - WHAT APPEARS TO BE A BEAK ON THE UPPER PART - POINTED CHIN, CHEEKBONES EXAGGERATEDLY LARGE. INVENTORIED 1977. LOAN: U.S.I.A. INUA. JUN 24 1988. ILLUS.: INUA CATALOGUE. USIA 1988, PL.8, P.11. LOAN RETURNED DEC 28 1990." USIA Inua catalogue identifies:as: "Raven mask, 28.5 cm... This mask was made for use in a memorial Feast of the Dead. Seen within the mouth of the raven is its inua, identified here as female by its downturned mouth and chin tattoos." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "CEREMONIAL MASK.---A NARROW HUMAN FACE CARVED FROM WOOD, PAINTED WHITE, WITH OUTLINES OF BLACK AND RED. FROM THE FOREHEAD A POINTED PROJECTION COMES DOWN BETWEEN THE EYES. THE MASK HAS TWO PAIRS OF EYES; THE UPPER PAIR ARE SLIGHTLY OPENED AND CUT THROUGH THE WOOD OVER THE LOWER PAIR ARE CARVED HEAVY LIDS WHICH EXTEND DOWN AS FAR AS THE LOWER PART OF THE NOSE. ON ONE SIDE OF THE MASK A CURVED PIECE OF WOOD IS ATTACHED; ON THE OTHER SIDE THERE IS A BLACK FEATHER. LENGTH, 11 1/2 INCHES; WIDTH, 5 1/4 INCHES. ESKIMO, ASKINUK, ALASKA. 48,700. COLLECTED BY E. W. NELSON. WORN AT FEASTS GIVEN IN MEMORY OF THE DEAD."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Askinuk (Hooper Bay), Near Cape Romanzof, Yukon & Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E48700-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 29.2 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 13.34 cm