Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1894
name: label: Collector
content: J. H. Turner
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Wide mouth showing two rows of wooden teeth; face long and smeared with black spots; 3 feather plumes attached. Loan: Crossroads Sep 22 1988. Loan returned: Jan. 21 1993. Illus.: Crossroads of Continents catalogue; Fig. 363, p. 266." Crossroads of Continents caption identifies as: "Spotted Mask, Bering Sea Eskimo. Spots were important in a number of festivals, but the meaning of this motif is not clear. In the Bladder Festival the bladders hung in the qasgiq were painted white with colored fingerspots (possibly equivalent to spiritual eyes?) to promote spiritual vision of the seal inuas. In other festivals, men's and boy's bodies were painted and spotted when they paraded from house to house." From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Mask - Carved from wood; wide mouth showing two rows o wooden teeth; face long and smeared with black spots; three feather plumes attached. Eskimo of Alaska, 1892. Collected by J.H. Turner."
label: Notes
content: Illustrated and described in Fienup-Riordan, Ann. 1996. The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks: Agayuliyararput, Our Way of Making Prayer. University of Washington Press Seattle and London. p. 234
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=647 , retrieved 11-23-2021; see web page for additional information: Mask, Yup'ik. This ceremonial mask has a wide, toothy mouth, a spotted face, and three attached plumes. It is similar to other masks representing the sculpin, a spiny ocean fish, although the community's meaning for this mask not recorded.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 027937
label: USNM Number
content: E153627-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 49.5 cm