Mask (bear with yua)
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 INUA MASK. 1/83 SITES INUA LOAN. INVENTORIED 1977." Illus. p. 104 in Fienup-Riordan, Ann, Marie Meade, and Barry McWayne. 1996. The living tradition of Yup'ik masks: agayuliyararput (our way of making prayer). Seattle, Wash: University of Washington Press. Identified there as red (grizzly) bear mask, with bear's yua peering out (of right eye); feathers originally decorated the mask's upper rim.
label: Notes
content: From transcript of consultations held in conjunction with "Yuungnaqpiallerput (The Way We Genuinely Live)" exhibit, April 17-18, 2010: "this type of mask that has the yua in the eye, they describe as hunters traveling who catch a glimpse of the animal and in that animal's fur they see the image of this deity, of this spirit face"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Jul 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, Yup'ik
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E38865-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask