Mask

Yup’ik Eskimo
Hooper Bay, Alaska

ca. 1890-1910

wood, white, red and black pigments, vegetal fiber

height: 20 1/2”

Provenance: Collected by Ralph and Anna Sullivan, schoolteachers stationed in Hoopers Bay and Pilot Station, Alaska, between 1916 and 1920. The Sullivans collected a group of complex Yup’ik masks during their stay in Alaska, now mostly residing in the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta.

By descent through the family

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