Caribou Hide Mask
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1958
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. William C. Sturtevant
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William C. Sturtevant
notes: label: Notes
content: Notes from Sturtevant's personal catalog: "Mask; length 13"; of molded caribou rawhide, in shape of human face, with caribou hair whiskers and eyebrows and forelock attached, encircled with ruff of rabbit (?) [sic] fur. Ordered by mail Mar., rec'd May, 1958, ($20.00) from Jack Ahgook, Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska, an informant of Leopold J. Pospisil and maker of similar masks collected in 1956: by LJP for Yale Peabody Museum. Note from Ahgook identified it as "mask No. 9, name potuktin." L. Pospisil, letter 11 June '58: "The Eskimo mask was used in dances which were part of a running competition festivity between two groups of Eskimo - usually coast and inland parties competed. It was also used in other "social dances" - today on 4th July!" [See color photo of similar mask, tho without hair or fur, also from Nunamiut of Anaktuvuk Pass, in Natl. Geogr. Mag. 116(1):43, July 1959]. Nunamiut Eskimo, Brooks Range, Ala. (Spencer, BAE-B 171, 1959, esp. p. 19, calls the Anaktuvuk Pass group Tulugaymiut, a band of Nuunamiut or inland Esk.)"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Jan 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Anaktuvuk Pass, Chandler Lake Quad / North Slope, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inupiaq, Nunamiut
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2049174
label: USNM Number
content: E437839-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask