Rare Yup’ik Mask Could Set Record Price
The Wall Street Journal reports that a rare Yup’ik dance mask on view at Donald Ellis Gallery could set a new record price for Native American art
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Owl Mask
Yup'ik
Lower Yukon River, Alaska
Lower Yukon River, Alaska
ca. 1890
wood, paint, caribou fur, vegetal fiber
height: 6 ⅜"
Inventory # E4399
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Purchased by Jeffrey Holbrook in 1962 or 1963 in Seattle, Washington
RELATED EXAMPLES
Sheldon Jackson Museum, Sitka, Alaska, Cat. nos. IIH11 and IIH 14 – See: Fienup-Riordan, Ann. The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996, pg. 6 for a remarkably similar pair of owl masks collected by Sheldon Jackson on the Lower Yukon River in the 1890’s
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Cat. no. 153615 – See: Ibid, pg. 227 for an owl mask collected by J.H Turner in 1891 in the Yukon River region of Alaska
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, Cat no. 64255 – See: Fitzhugh, William and Kaplan, Susan. Inua: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982, pg. 211 for an owl mask collected by Edward William Nelsonat Sabotnisky, on the Lower Yukon River.
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