Shaman's Mask (made for sale)

Eric Accibuk, Iñupiaq / American, 1881-unknown
Iñupiaq
Western Arctic
Arctic

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about 1948

Spruce wood, red and black pigment

Overall: 10 1/16 × 6 3/4 in. (25.5 × 17.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Sally Carrighar

166.43.16135

Geography

Place Made: Unalakleet, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Ceremonial Artifact: Mask

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic

Not on view

Course History

NAS 37, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Medeia Krisztina C. DeHass, Spring 2013

NAS 37, ANTH 47, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Winter 2014

ANTH 12.11, NAS 30, Arctic Crossroads: Its Peoples, Cultures, and History, William Fitzhugh, Winter 2015

NAS 37, ANTH 37, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Spring 2015

Provenance

Made by Accibuk, Unalakleet, Alaska; Sally Carrighar (1895-1985) writer and naturalist who spent ten years in the Arctic; given to present collection, 1966.

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