Mask
Mask

Currently not on view

Mask,

ca. 1900

Iñupiaq
PU 5469

Information

Title
Mask
Dates

ca. 1900

Medium
Wood with black pigment and red ocher
Dimensions
h. 23.3 cm., w. 14.4 cm., d. 3.3 cm. (9 3/16 x 5 11/16 x 1 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Lent by the Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
Object Number
PU 5469
Place Collected

North America, United States, Alaska, King Island

Marks/Labels/Seals
Tag nailed by its string: Wooden mask | from the Arctic
Culture
Inupiaq, Native American
Type
masks (costume), sculpture
Materials
wood, pigment
Subject
faces, geometric patterns

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

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