Carved Wooden Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Jun 1954
name: label: Collector
content: Clyde L. Eastman
label: Donor Name
content: Col. Clyde L. Eastman
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Carved representation of human face but marginal at top and bottom with representations of bird heads and at lowr corners with webbed feet. Topped with strip of fur. Painted black above eye slots."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 351, p. 259 in Fitzhugh, William W., and Aron Crowell. 1988. Crossroads of continents: cultures of Siberia and Alaska. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Identified there as: "Transformation mask. A blood-stained tunghak is seen in the face of this bird mask, which combines stylistic features of Eskimo and Indian art. Inua and tunghak masks are common in Bering Sea Eskimo culture, but the use of fur, painted hair, and cylindrical ear ornaments are typical of Ingalik Indian masks. The mask was collected in Norton Sound, but seems likely to have originated among Eskimo-like Ingalik Indians who lived upstream on the Yukon River."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Stebbins, Norton Sound, 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: 202367
label: USNM Number
content: E393152-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask