Dance Mask - grizzly bear and salmon
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BEAR MASK PAINTED WHITE EDGED IN RED WITH WOODEN TEETH AND 3 WOODEN HOOPS. II FEATHERS. 1/83 SITES INUA LOAN. INVENTORIED 1977. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG.348, P.257. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." Crossroads catalogue caption identifies as: "Grizzly Bear Spirit Realm, Bering Sea Eskimo. This mask represents the masked face (note mask bars on eyes) of a grizzly bear spirit confronting his traditional food, a salmon. His whiskers are made of quills, and three ... [Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis)] feathers are set into his brow. In addition to an encircling painted ring, bentwood hoops called ellanguat (lit. pretend cosmos or universe) fitted with swan feathers surround his head. Similarly decorated hoops used in the Doll Festival were represented to Edward Nelson (1899:496) as being symbolic of the universe, with feathers and downy plumes being stars and snowflakes."
label: Notes
content: From transcript of consultations held in conjunction with "Yuungnaqpiallerput (The Way We Genuinely Live)" exhibit, April 17-18, 2010: "bear mask with a fish in its mouth […] peering through its own universe"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Rasboinsky (Razboinski, Anqercaq), Yukon River, Lower, 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: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E38734-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask