Mask - Face Legendary
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1880
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SMALL OVAL MASK PAINTED WHITE - RIGHT EYE AND MOUTH ARE ROUND. LEFT EYE A DOWNWARDS CRESCENT SURROUNDED BY A PATCH OF RED AND SPOTTED WHITE-3 FEATHERS. INVENTORIED 1977. LOAN: U.S.I.A. INUA JUN 24 1988. LOAN RETURNED DEC 28 1990." FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; PL. XCV-4; P. 396. LOANED: OSAKA EXPO-70 JULY 69 - JAN. 71. RETURNED DECEMBER 7, 1970."
label: Notes
content: ILLUS.: INUA CATALOGUE (USIA 1988); PL. 1 (UNDER INCORRECT # 43770). USIA Inua catalogue identifies as: Tunghak mask, wood, length 21 cm.. "This mask represents an evil spirit or tunghak. Unattached to a material object, as in the case of inuas, these spririts roamed about causing evil. They were seen only by shamans who would chase them from the village. This mask is thought to represent the spirit of the mountains (Ray 1967:54). The mask displays lunar imagery with one eye in the shape of a full moon while the reddened eye is the new, or crescent-shaped, moon. Originally many long strands of caribou hair spewed forth from the mask's mouth."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Jun 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Pastolik, Yukon River, Mouth, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 80A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E43779-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask