Mask
64-7-3
From: Alaska | Anaktuvuk Pass
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 64-7-3 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Eskimo | Inupiaq |
| Provenience | Alaska | Anaktuvuk Pass |
| Culture Area | Arctic Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Rawhide | Wood | Fur |
| Description | Realistically molded male face. Made of thin piece of rawhide which was stretched over a wooden form. Hair scraped short but visible on inner surface. Eyebrow & moustache of muskrat fur sewed on with sinew. Brown head hair probably bear; white dog or wolf fur ruff around entire face. Form for this mask is in the Peabody Museum, Yale University; other masks made on same form are also there, owned by Dr. Leopold Pospi Yale Uni., and Dr. Jack Campbell, George Washington Univ. |
| Credit Line | Gift of William H. Davenport, 1964 |
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