Wooden Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Jun 1965
name: label: Collector
content: Lester Hargrett
label: Donor Name
content: Lester Hargrett
notes: label: Notes
content: From Card: "Buffalo mask worn in Booger Dance. Black locks of painted hair and hair also indicated by incised lines. Two short, curved horns. Streaks of dark stain on face. Signed on interior surface, in pencil, in English block letters and in Cherokee syllabary." Back of mask has written signature in pencil: "Will W. Long" (the maker of the mask).
label: Notes
content: Illus. p. 106 in Fariello, M. Anna. 2023. Will West Long : The Man behind the Mask / Anna Fariello. Cullowhee, NC: Curatorial InSight.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Sep 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Qualla Indian Boundary, Eastern Cherokee Reservation, North Carolina, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 261303
label: USNM Number
content: E403780-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask