Dance Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1882
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM WOOD; RECTANGULAR IN FORM WITH FACE PAINTED RED IN THE CENTER AND RESEMBLING THE FULL MOON. TWO SLENDER WOODEN STRIPS ARE LASHED TO THE SIDES, ONE ABOVE THE OTHER, THUS FORMING AN ARCH; A SMALL WOODE BOB HANGS FROM EACH CHEEK; TWO FEATHERS ATTACHED. DIMENSIONS, 8 X 9 INCHES." FROM CARD: "DANCE MASK.---CARVED FROM WOOD; RECTANGULAR IN FORM WITH FACE PAINTED RED IN THE CENTER AND RESEMBLING THE FULL MOON. TWO SLENDER WOODEN STRIPS ARE LASHED TO THE SIDES, ONE ABOVE THE OTHER, THUS FORMING AN ARCH; A SMALL WOODEN BOB HANGS FROM EACH CHEEK; TWO FEATHERS ATTACHED. DIMENSIONS, 8 X 9 INCHES. ESKIMO OF KUSKOKVIM, ALASKA, 1882. 64,232. COLLECTED BY E. W. NELSON. INVENTORIED 1977."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kuskokwim / Kuskokwim River, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E64232-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Object
content: 20 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 23 cm