Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by George Heye from the Alaska Curio Shop (Seattle, Washington) in 1922 during travel in British Columbia.
- Contact Us
- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- probably Yup'ik (Yupik) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Alaska Curio Shop
- Seller
- Alaska Curio Shop
- MAI agent
- George Gustav Heye (GGH), Non-Indian, 1874-1957
- Object Name
- Mask
- Media/Materials
- Wood, animal gut/intestines , pigment/pigments
- Techniques
- Carved, painted
- Dimensions
- 34 x 70 x 36.3 cm
- Object Type
- Masks and Masking
