Mask Item Number: A2.223 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Imitation of a white man's face. Hide modelled and stretched into form of face and then dried. There is no framework. Face surrounded with white-grey hair. Dark brown hair on the forehead. White-grey hair for eyebrows. Dark brown hair for moustache and goatee. Slits cut out for the eyes which have white-grey hair for eyelashes. Slit cut out for the mouth.
Item History
What
Who
- Culture
- Inuit
- Previous Owner
- Ted Weld
- Received from
- H. R. MacMillan (Funding source) and Ted Weld (Seller)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Juneau, Alaska, USA
When
- Creation Date
- before 1962
- Ownership Date
- before May 1962
- Acquisition Date
- during May 1962
Other
- Condition
- good
- Current Location
- Case 48
- Accession Number
- 1816/0002