Cast Of Maskette
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William C. Sturtevant
notes: label: Notes
content: Notes from Sturtevant's personal catalog: "Maskette, 2 3/8" long; human head, slit eyes. "Two miniature masks, Alaska," very old. Harvard Peabody #84277 (on perm. loan to Art Dept., Tex. Wis U. Denton, Tex.) Tlingit? [Note applicable to E437,825-E437,828]: Casts of 6 Northwest Coast masks in Harvard Peabody Museum. Gift of Alan R. Sawyer, Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 1957, who made latex molds and plaster casts. Colored by W.C.S. following notes and photos from Sawyer.]"
label: Notes
content: This somewhat resembles Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology Harvard Object number 31-63-10/K95, a miniature mask identified as Haida? http://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/26415 .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Jan 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northwest Coast, United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit (?)
label: Culture
content: Haida (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2049174
label: USNM Number
content: E437836-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask