Bear mask with strands of human hair
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUST. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1, PL. XCV-2, P. 396. ANIMAL SPIRIT MASK. PAINTED RED AND WHITE WITH EXTENDED TONGUE. 1/83 SITES INUA LOAN. INVENTORIED 1977. LOAN: U.S.I.A. INUA JUN 24 1988. ILLUS.: INUA CATALOGUE. USIA 1988, COVER. LOAN RETURNED DEC 28 1990."
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
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. 104
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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=583 , retrieved 10-26-2021; see web page for additional information: Mask, Yup'ik. This mask is a black bear, from which the animal's yua, or inner person, peers out. Tufts of human hair (some now missing) hang over the eye. The bear's red tongue is attached by a flexible willow splint so that it would have bobbed up and down during the dance, perhaps representing the animal's fatigue as hunters pursued it. A unique song-story and dance were composed for each mask.
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content: Note: the feathers on this mask are replacement feathers added for exhibition purposes. The 7 new swan feathers were placed in the mask by ACL in 1987, but turned around as per instructions from Yup'ik consultant, Chuna McIntyre, 10/2007. See Anthropology Conservation Lab records for additional information.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sabotnisky, Yukon River, Lower, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E48985-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Width - Object
content: 52 cm