Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1880
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ATTACHED FEATHERED HEADDRESS, EAR ORNAMENT, ETC. INVENTORIED 1977."LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG.439, P.307. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." FROM CARD: "45501-5. #45502-3- WOMAN'S FACE. CAT. NO. 45502 NEG. NO. MNH 391-B." Identified in Crossroads catalogue caption as: "Ingalik (Athabaskan) plaque mask. Ingalik plaque masks have the central face, shape, feathering, and encircling grooves and painted bands found on Bering Sea masks ...; but its colors, hair ears, ear ornaments, cheek spots, shapes and placement of grooves, and overall pattern identify its origin as Ingalik."
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=575, retrieved 8-9-2012: Mask, Deg Hit'an Athabascan. Deg Hit'an men carved masks representing people, animals, and spirits that appeared to them in dreams. This mask portrays a woman with chin tattoos, red cheeks, a dentalium shell labret, and dentalium earrings. The surrounding circles, as on Yup'ik masks, symbolize levels of the sky with wooden plugs (some now missing) that indicate stars.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Anvik, Yukon River, Lower, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Athabascan (Athabaskan)
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: 80A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E45502-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Width - Object
content: 70 cm