Small Mask
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: "1/83 SITES INUA LOAN. FINGER MASK; BIRD AND HUMAN FACE. (PART OF A PAIR). LOAN: U.S.I.A. INUA JUN 24 1988. ILLUS.: INUA CATALOGUE. USIA 1988, PL. 97, P.66. LOAN RETURNED DEC 28 1998." USIA Inua identifies: Finger mask. "Unlike men, women did not wear fullsize face masks. Instead they wore small pairs of masks on their hands. These miniatures represented the same host of spirits as the face masks and were occasionally double sided." "Double-sided finger masks depicted an animal on one side and its inua on the other. When dancing, dropping or twisting the hands completed the transformation."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Feb 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Rasboinsky (Razboinski, Anqercaq), Yukon River, Lower, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E38852-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Finger Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 11.4 cm