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: "DANCE MASK.---A LARGE, RUDE [sic] CARVING FROM WOOD, RESEMBLING A TURTLE IN FORM; CENTER PAINTED WHITE TO REPRESENT A FACE, WITH PERFORATIONS FOR EYES, NOSE, AND MOUTH; TWO PERFORATIONS ALSO IN EACH SIDE OF THE BORDER; SURROUNDED BY A WOODEN RIM AND SEVERAL FEATHER PLUMES. LENGTH, 20 INCHES. ESKIMO OF KUSKOKVIM, ALASKA, 1882. 64,257. COLLECTED BY E. W. NELSON."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Jun 2024
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
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: E64257-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 51 cm