Shaman mask

Reference : 7251

Cedar wood
Dimensions: H.15cm, L.12cm
Presumed date of origin: ^19th century or earlier
Inupiak population
Point Hope region,
Alaska, USA

Provenance:
Jeffrey Myers Collection, New York
(Primitive America label)
Pinhas Mendelson Collection, New York
Julien Flak Collection, Paris, Aix en Provence

More details

This mask representing an ancestral spirit is typical of Inupiak art.

Oval-shaped, with elongated almond-shaped eyes and a smiling mouth.

It is to be compared with a mask shown in a photograph taken before 1929 and now in the Sheldon Jackson Museum, Sitka (Inv n°SJ-II-K-41).

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