Wooden Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1884
name: label: Collector
content: William J. Fisher
label: Donor Name
content: William J. Fisher
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Height 24" - Width 7" - Depth 3 1/2". Painted with red ochre surrounding mouth and traces of red paint at sides. Elongated human face, mouth and chin pointed and extended like a beak - slit eyes. On loan, Buenos Aires, March 25, 1954 - returned 1955. Loaned: Osaka Expo-70 July 69 - Jan. 71. Returned to collection December 7, 1970. Loaned to the National Gallery of Art October 20, 1972. Returned 5-29-73. Illus. in the Far North catalog, Nat. Gall. of Art, 1973, p. 98. Loaned to Museum of Modern Art 8-1-84. Returned from Museum of Modern Art 10-4-1985. Loan: Crossroads Sep 22 1988. Loan returned: Jan 21 1993. Illus.: Crossroads of Continents catalogue; Fig. 441, p. 307." Crossroads of Continents catalogue identifies as a Koniag Pacific Eskimo mask. "Pacific Eskimo and Aleut masks included a type with high foreheads, perhaps representing pointed-head evil spirits of the region. This type of mask was not found among neighboring Bering Sea and Northwest Coast groups. There are no masks like this from the Aleutians."
label: Notes
content: ACCESSION RECORD INDICATES THIS WAS COLLECTED AT DOUGLAS ON THE ALASKA PENINSULA, OPPOSITE KODIAK ISLAND. - F. PICKERING 3-5-1997. CORRECT DATES FOR LOAN ARE DEC. 21, 1992 TO FEB. 17, 1993.-A. THOMSON 3-6-1997.
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: Douglas (Opposite Kodiak Island), Alaska Peninsula / Shelikof Strait / Cape Douglas, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Alutiiq (Sugpiaq), Koniag
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 015687
label: USNM Number
content: E74690-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask