Mask Worn By Women At Dances
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Dec 1882
name: label: Collector
content: William J. Fisher
label: Donor Name
content: William J. Fisher
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Chi-na-chut. Large blue square mask with a square cut out in the middle, red detail, 8 feathers." Forms a pair with E72507.
label: Notes
content: From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Mask (Chi-na-chut). - A flat piece of board with hole for face; painted blue and decorated with tail and scapular feathers, and under-tail-coverts of Goshawk (Astur atricapillus) inserted in the edges, on which are strung large glass beads of various sizes and colors. Worn by women at dances. Nushagagmut Eskimo. Length, 16 1/2 ins. Breadth, 14 ins. Nushagak River, Aliaska Peninsula, Alaska, 1882. Collected by Wm. J. Fisher."
label: Notes
content: Reference: Crowell, Aron. “Postcontact Koniag Ceremonialism on Kodiak Island and the Alaska Peninsula: Evidence from the Fisher Collection.” Arctic Anthropology 29, no. 1 (1992): 18–37. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40316240. Copy of this article is attached to accession record.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Feb 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Alaska Peninsula / Bristol Bay / Ugashik River, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik, Nushagagmiut
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 012209
label: USNM Number
content: E72506-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask