Dance mask
Lower Yukon, Alaska
ca. 1870
wood, paint
height: 14"
width: 6 ½"
Inventory # E1988b
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PROVENANCE
By descent through the estate of Reta Mae Daniels, Bellingham, Washington, to her grandson.
Reta Mae Daniels (b. 1900) travelled to Unalaska in 1917, reportedly the first Caucasian school-teacher in the Aleutian Islands. Upon leaving Alaska in 1918, a pair of masks was presented as a parting gift.
Shawn Ison, Bellingham, Washington
PUBLISHED
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2001 pg. 6
RELATED EXAMPLES
For a pair of masks likely by the same hand collected by Sheldon Jackson at Andreafski in 1893, see: The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks, Fienup-Riordan, University of WA Press, Seattle, pg. 108
Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, No. 33104 - See: Inua, Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo, Fitzhugh, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982, pl. 99