Mask of carved wood. Representing a human face. The mask is rounded with perforations for the eyes and mouth. There are holes at the side of the mask, there is a loop of plant fibre knotted through one hole. [AB [OPS Move] 5/9/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Mask of carved wood. Representing a human face. The mask is rounded with perforations for the eyes and mouth. There are holes at the side of the mask, there is a loop of plant fibre knotted through one hole. [AB [OPS Move] 5/9/2016]
Geographical reference: United States of America
Northern America > North America > United States of America; Alaska Point Barrow
Cultural groups: Inuit (Greenland); Inuit
Person: Field collector William Henry Blackmore; PRM source Irene Marguerite Beasley
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1931
Date collected: By 1931
Acquisition information: Donated: 1954
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions: Depth: max 55 mm, Width: max 160 mm, Height: max 150 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1954.9.115 Other numbers: Beasley no. LB 1.2.1931
Research and responses: The Blackmore Museum was formed by William Blackmore (1827-1878), mainly through his own visits to the USA between 1863 and 1878. I have therefore added William Blackmore as possibly the field collector for this record.
See Taylor, C. 1987. William Blackmore: a 19th-century Englishman’s contribution to American Indian ethnology. In C.F. Feest (eds) Indians and Europe: an interdisciplinary collection of essays. Aachen: Rader Verlag, pp. 321-336. [Dan Hicks 28/08/2012]

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