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Dance Mask
Yup'ik
Kuskokwim River, Alaska
Kuskokwim River, Alaska
19th century
wood, paint, vegetal fibers
height: 14"
Inventory # E3942-4
Sold
The mate to this mask is now in the collection of the Thomas Burke Memorial Museum, Seattle, WA - See: Fienup-Riordan, Ann. The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996, pg. 279
Provenance
Collected along the Kuskokwim River between 1905 and 1941 by Robert Gierke, a trader based in Bethel, Alaska
Related Examples
Fienup-Riordan, Ann. The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996, pgs. 273 - 280
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