Wooden Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Dec 1929
name: label: Donor Name
content: Capt. C T. Pedersen
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Human face."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 66 p. 68 in Chaussonnet, Valerie. 1995. Crossroads Alaska: native cultures of Alaska and Siberia. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Identified there as Inupiaq wooden female mask with tattoos, from late 1800s to the early 1900s. "Unlike most Yupik masks, fantastic or abstract ..., Inupiaq masks usually look realistically human. The painted hair is neatly combed, and the chin tattoos are a fertility charm."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 May 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Point Hope, Point Hope Quad, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 107258
label: USNM Number
content: A348825-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask