Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Nov 1878
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SMALL MASKS WORN ON THE FORE FINGERS. PASTOLIK KO, U, KLIT. OO, GUL, IT NATCHUK. ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; PL. CV-3; P. 418. LOAN: U.S.I.A. INUA JUN 24 1988. ILLUS.: INUA CATALOGUE. USIA 1988, PL.98, P.66. LOAN RETURNED DEC 28 1990." USIA Inua catalogue identifies: Finger masks. "Unlike men, women did not wear fullsize face masks. Instead they wore small pairs of masks on their hands. These miniatures represented the same host of spirits as the face masks and were occasionally double sided."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Mar 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Pastolik, Yukon River, Mouth, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 78A00080
label: USNM Number
content: E33121-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Finger Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 23.3 cm