Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Nov 1878
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "Loan: Houston Museum of Art, Aug. 25, 1969, returned December 17, 1969. Large triangular mask appears to be a black bear - hair and nose are black - face is white trimmed with red. 10 feathers." Loan: Crossroads Sep 22, 1988. Loan returned Jan 21, 1993. Illus.: Crossroads of Continents catalogue; Fig. 367, p. 269." Crossroads of Continents catalogue caption identifies as: Festival mask, Norton Sound Yupik Eskimo; plaque mask worn but not danced with; probable black bear mask combined with bird (Raven?) imagery.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kigiktauik, Norton Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 78A00080
label: USNM Number
content: E33106-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask