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Mask
Inupiaq
Point Hope, Alaska
late 19th century
wood, paint
height: 10 1/4˝
Inventory # CE2035
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Provenance
This mask was collected in Alaska in the late 19th century by Joseph E. Chilberg. Chilberg travelled to Alaska for the gold rush and, over a period of approximately twenty years, amassed a large and significant collection of Inuit art and artifacts. In 1917 he established Chilberg’s Alaska Museum of Arctic Antiquity and Curio Emporium in Long Beach, California. This enterprise remained in operation until 1935.
Donald Ellis Gallery, Dundas, ON
Private collection
Published
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2001, pg. 27
Related Examples
Fitzhugh, William and Kaplan, Susan. Inua: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982, pl. 259
Sheldon Jackson Museum. A Catalogue of the Ethnological Collections in the Sheldon Jackson Museum. Sitka: Sheldon Jackson College, 1976, pg. 128