Mask - Made From Turtle Shell
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "The mask has been made from an turtle shell with a face painted on and hair added to the top."
label: Notes
content: This mask is one of a group about which curator Dr. William C. Sturtevant wrote a memo May 21, 1971. In the memo he wrote: "None of the masks ... should be selected by anyone wishing to exhibit or illustrate False-Faces which are in any sense typical. All the masks here are stylistically very divergent. None shows any signs of having been used. ... The mask made from a turtle carapace is evidently unique, certainly cannot have been made for use, and was certainly produced solely for sale."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, New York, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Iroquois (Haudenosaunee)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E361207-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask