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Complex Dance Mask
Yup'ik
Goodnews Bay, Alaska
Goodnews Bay, Alaska
19th century
wood, white, red, black and blue/green paint, vegetal fibers
height: 30"
Inventory # E3485
Sold
Provenance
Reportedly collected by W. D. Shearer, an engineer who travelled to Alaska between 1928 and 1932, and again in the mid 1930’s.
Then by descent to Shearer’s grandson, Craig S. Coleman of California
Published
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2010, pgs. 26 - 27
Related Examples
Thomas Burke Memorial Museum, Seattle, No. 4528 – See: Fienup-Riordan, Ann. The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996, pg. 162
Alaska State Museum, Juneau, No. 11A 1454 – See: Ibid, pg. 287
Andre Breton Collection, Paris, France – See: Andre Breton: 42 rue Fontaine Calmels Cohen, April 17, 2003, lot 6161
Art of the Ancestors, Shaw, George, Aspen Art Museum, 2004, pg. 72