DANCE ORNAMENT
Yup’ik
Kuskokwim River, Alaska
late 19th century
wood, paint, feathers, vegetal fibres
length: 36˝
Inventory # E1220
Sold
acquired by the Diker Collection, now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Provenance
Collected by Adams Hollis Twichell along the Kuskowim River in 1905
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York, NY, cat. no. 9/3445
Edward Primus, by exchange, 1957
J.J. Klegman, New York, NY, 1962
Stanley Grant Collection, New York, NY
Donald Ellis Gallery, Dundas, ON
The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection, New York, NY
Exhibited
“Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; February 12–May 17, 2015
“Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection,” Amon Carter Museum, Seattle, WA; July 5 – September 13, 2015
Published
The Living Tradition of Yup’ik Masks, Fienup-Riordan, Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press, 1996; pg. 254
Native Paths: American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker, Wardwell, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY, 1998; pg. 106, pl. 119
Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Diker Collection, Penney et al, New York, NY, Skira Rizzoli Publications Inc., 2015; pg. 77, pl. 39
Related Examples
For another example possibly by the same hand - see: Carpenter, Edmund. ed. Upside Down: Arctic Realities, The Menil Collection, 2011, pg. 217, fig. 12.
Fienup-Riordan, Ann. The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996, pgs. 131 & 247