Wooden Mask (Part)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Dec 1873
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Coast Survey
notes: label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 94b, p. 85 in Black, Lydia. 2003. Aleut art = Unangam aguqaadangin. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Co. Publishers. This mask and A13082F, shown in Fig. 94a, are identified in the caption as "These two masks in our opinion clearly represent either a process of transformation, or a man already transformed, into a predatory beast. Note that on Kodiak and among the Eastern Aleut whaling was associated with the moon, green light, and killer whales. In general, men - hunters and warriors - were associated with the moon."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Mar 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Unga Island / Delarof Harbor, Port Moller Quad / Aleutian Islands / Shumagin Islands, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Aleut (Unangax^ ; Unangan; Unangas)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 003035
label: USNM Number
content: A13082B-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask