Funerary mask (Image withheld)
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Inupiaq (Alaskan Inupiat Eskimo) [Kinugumiut/Kingegan/Cape Prince of Wales]
- Previous owner
- Joseph Chilberg, Non-Indian, 1850-1939
- Seller
- Joseph Chilberg, Non-Indian, 1850-1939
- Object Name
- Funerary mask (Image withheld)
- Media/Materials
- Wood
- Techniques
- Carved
- Object Type
- Ceremonial/Ritual items
- Place
- Cape Prince of Wales; Bering Straits Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by MAI from Joseph Chilberg (1850-1939, a Native artifact dealer in Nome, Alaska) in 1917.
- Catalog Number
- 7/2331
- Barcode
- 072331.000
- See related items
- Inupiaq (Alaskan Inupiat Eskimo) [Kinugumiut/Kingegan/Cape Prince of Wales]
- Ceremonial/Ritual items
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
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