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Dance Mask
Yup’ik
Lower Yukon River, Alaska
likely the village of Sabotnisky
ca. 1870
wood, paint, feathers
height: 8"
Inventory # CE3534
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For a remarkably similar mask collected by Edward Nelson between 1877 and 1881 at Sabotnisky on the Lower Yukon River, see Fitzhugh, 1982; pg. 211, pl. 259.
Provenance
J. Kanietzko, Hamburg, Germany
Merton Simpson, New York, NY
Sotheby’s, New York, NY; November 28, 1989; lot 210
Gerald Piltzer, Paris, France
Donald Ellis Gallery, Dundas, ON
Private collection
RELATED EXAMPLE
Ray, Dorothy Jean. Eskimo Masks: Art and Ceremony. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967, pl. 16