Raven Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 4 Feb 1987
label: Collection Date
content: 1975
name: label: Collector
content: Carol F. Jopling
label: Donor Name
content: Carol F. Jopling
notes: label: Notes
content: RAVEN MASK PAINTED BLACK WITH WHITE EYES AND RED MOUTH. SIGNED ON THE BACK BY AL PIKONGANNA WHO MADE IT ON COMMISSION.
label: Notes
content: MAKER AL PIKONGANNA IS PRESUMABLY ALOYSIUS PIKONGANNA? TWO STICKERS WERE GLUED TO THE BACK OF THE MASK. ONE SAYS "KING ISLAND, ALASKA" (WHICH IS WHERE MAKER WAS FROM). THE SECOND SAYS "NOME 1975" (MEANING OF THIS IS UNCLEAR; PERHAPS NOME IS WHERE THE PIECE WAS ACTUALLY MADE AND/OR PURCHASED IN 1975?)
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
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 https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=715 , retrieved 1-11-2022; see web page for additional information: Mask, Inupiaq. This contemporary Raven mask, made by Aloysius Pikonganna in 1975, is the type worn during the King Island Raven Dance. Ravens are revered and never killed because they "take care of people" and alert hunters to the presence of live game or of dead sea mammals on the ice.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: King Island, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inupiaq
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 368048
label: USNM Number
content: E424456-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 28 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 14 cm