Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1894
name: label: Collector
content: J. H. Turner
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Carved from wood in shape of half moon; blue border and semicircular row of wooden pins; two black feathers attached. Edges red. Loan: Crossroads Sep 22 1988. Loan returned: Jan 21 1993. Illus.: Crossroads of Continents catalogue; Fig. 367, p. 269." Crossroads of Continents catalogue identifies as: Festival mask, Norton Sound Yupik Eskimo; face mask worn by active dancers; half-face transformation mask, possibly a tunghak, with "toothed" crescent mouths and eyes. Illustrated and described in Fienup-Riordan, Ann. 1996. The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks: Agayuliyararput, Our Way of Making Prayer. University of Washington Press Seattle and London. p. 178
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Feb 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: West, 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: 027937
label: USNM Number
content: E153623-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask