Dance Mask
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: "1 OF 2 MASKS ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT.1, PL. CII, NO.4, P.412, MISIDENTIFIED AS 64238: SMALL OVAL MASK WITH TWO WOODEN FRAMES. ORIGINALLY HAD 3 BLACK FEATHERS WITH TUFTS, ALMOND SHAPED EYES-RED WITH BLACK IRISES AND THIN LOWER JAW (HINGED), MOUTH PAINTED RED, THIN BLACK LINE JOINING THE EYES. ORIGINALLY HAD 16 POINTED WOODEN TEETH. BROWN SPOTS ABOVE AND BELOW MOUTH-MOUSTACHE AND BEARRD?" FROM CARD: "DANCE MASK.---HUMAN FACE PAINTED WHITE; LABRET, FASTENED TO A QUILL, PROJECTS FROM LOWER LIP; SMALL RED HAND ON EITHER SIDE; ALTERNATE BLACK AND WHITE FEATHERS IN EDGE; LIGHT WOODEN RING EXTENDS FROM SIDE TO SIDE OVER TOP. KUSKWOGMUT ESKIMO. LENGTH, 8 INS. BREADTH, 8 INS. KUSKOQUIM, ALASKA. 64,237. COLLECTED BY E. W. NELSON."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Kuskokwim / Kuskokwim River, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E64237-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 20 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 20 cm