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Object Number 88-51-10/50002
Display Title Spirit mask with a twisted face and white dots
Descriptions
Object Description Spirit mask with a twisted face. White dots combined with twisted features
Inventory Description Mask, twisted face painted black/white with dots, 2 piece wood pipe? in mouth
Classification
  • Mask
Department Ethnographic
Date c. 1885
Culture
  • Alutiiq?
  • Yupik?
  • Inuit
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / Lake and Peninsula Borough / Ugashik
Dimensions Overall: 22 x 18 x 6.5 cm (8 11/16 x 7 1/16 x 2 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 127808; 50002
Provenance
Collector W. J. Fisher (1887)
Exchange participant Smithsonian Institution (01/01/1888)

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