Object Details
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Anchorage Museum of History and Art Gift Shop (Anchorage, Alaska) in 1972; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Yup'ik (Yupik)
- Artist/Maker
- Cyril Chanar, Yup'ik (Yupik), 1908-1977
- IACB source
- Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center Shop (Anchorage Museum of History and Art Shop/Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum Shop)
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- Date created
- 1962
- Object Name
- Mask
- Media/Materials
- Wood, sinew
- Techniques
- Carved, painted
- Dimensions
- 9.4 x 31 cm
- Object Type
- Masks and Masking
