Dance Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; PL. XCVIII-2; P. 404. SMALL - ARCH SHAPED MASK TRACES OF WHITE PAINT-CRESCENTAL EYES POINTING DOWNWARDS. STYLIZED-7 FEATHERS-ORIGINALLY 2 WOODEN PRONGS PROTRUDING ON SIDES-TEETH? 1/83 SITES INUA LOAN".
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 79 p. 74 in Chaussonnet, Valerie. 1995. Crossroads Alaska: native cultures of Alaska and Siberia. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Identified there: "Night and day mask. Athapaskan (Ingalik) black and white female mask with labret and nose pendant, collected by Edward W. Nelson on the Kuskokwim River, Alaska, in 1879."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Oct 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kuskokwim / Kuskokwim River, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo (?)
label: Culture
content: Ingalik (Deg Xitʼan, Degexitʼan, Deg Hit'an) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E64242-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask