Mask
Mask

Currently not on view

Mask,

1860–1900

Yup'ik
PU 5471

Information

Title
Mask
Dates

1860–1900

Medium
Wood painted with red ocher
Dimensions
h. 19.7 cm., w. 14.2 cm., d. 7.3 cm. (7 3/4 x 5 9/16 x 2 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Lent by the Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
Object Number
PU 5471
Place Made

North America, United States, Alaska, Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta

Culture
Yupik, Native American
Period
Alaskan Native styles
Type
masks (costume), sculpture
Materials
wood
Subject
faces

Collected by Lt. George Thornton Emmons; Given to E. M. Museum (Princeton Museum of Natural History), 1894-1915

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