Wooden Mask
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: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; PL. XCIX-3; P. 406 SMALL, ROUND-DISTORTED FEATURES. A ROUND HOLE IN THE FOREHEAD-RED AND BLACK TRIM. INVENTORIED 1977. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG.353, P.260. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." Crossroads catalogue caption identifies as: "Lunar Tunghak mask, Bering Sea Eskimo. Bering Sea Eskimos believed the supreme deity that controlled animals, the tunghak, lived in the moon. It was to him they sent their shamans to plead for game and other favors. In addition their ferocious, bloodstained mein, tunghak masks reflect lunar themes. This mask displays toothed orbs and crescents, and portrays the twisted-face "old man in the moon." The right eye originally was masked by drooping hair, and feathers were mounted around the rim."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Jun 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Yukon River, 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: E38645-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask