Loon mask
Object Details
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Yugtarvik Regional Museum (Bethel, Alaska) in 1981; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Date created
- 1981
- Catalog Number
- 25/5521
- Barcode
- 255521.000
- Culture/People
- Cu'pig (Cup'ik) [Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island]
- Artist/Maker
- Edward Kiokun, Cu'pig (Cup'ik) [Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island], 1903-1998
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Yugtarvik Regional Museum
- Object Type
- Masks and Masking
- Object Name
- Loon mask
- Media/Materials
- Driftwood, paint, bird quills
- Techniques
- Carved, painted
- Dimensions
- 75.5 x 61.5 x 22.1 cm
- Place
- Mekoryuk; Calista Native Corporation; Alaska; USA (inferred)
- Archipelago
- Bering Sea Islands
- Island Name
- Nunivak Island
- See related items
- Cu'pig (Cup'ik) [Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island]
- Masks and Masking
- On View
- NMAI, Washington DC: Window on Collections, Animals
- Record ID
- NMAI_271386
