Dancing Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Sep 1876
name: label: Donor Name
content: Lucien M. Turner
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SMALL HUMAN FACE PAINTED WHITE DOTTED BLACK-RED EDGE-BROWS, MOUSTACHE AND BEARD ARE BLACK 2 ROWS OF WOODEN TEETH-SLIT EYES. INVENTORIED 1977."
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=535 , retrieved 12-29-2021; see web page for additional information: Mask, Inupiaq. Shamans carved masks to represent beings they had seen on their spiritual flights to other worlds, and to protect themselves against other shamans and threatening supernatural forces. Men and women wore masks to dance in the qargi (community house) after the hunting season when they honored the animal spirits and asked them to return in the spring. This mask represents a man's face with mustache, beard, and labrets.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: St. Michael, Norton Sound, 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: 76A00100
label: USNM Number
content: E24326-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 23.5 cm