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COMPLEX DANCE MASK
Yup’ik
Hooper Bay, Alaska
late 19th/early 20th century
wood, paint, feathers, vegetal fibres, sinew
height: 31˝
width: 18˝
Inventory # CE4297
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Provenance
Collected by schoolteachers Ralph and Anna Sullivan, stationed in Hooper Bay and Pilot Station, Alaska, between 1916 and 1918. The Sullivans collected a group of complex Yup’ik masks during their stay in Alaska, eight of which are now in the collection of the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
George Terasaki, New York, NY
Donald Ellis Gallery, Dundas, ON
Private collection, New York, NY
Exhibited
"Moon Dancers: Yup'ik Masks and the Surrealists", Di Donna Galleries, New York, April 27 - June 29, 2018
Published
The Face of Dance, Yup'ik Eskimo Masks From Alaska, Glenbow Museum, 1990, pg. 30, pl. X
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, Toronto, 1997, front cover
Art of the Arctic: Reflections of the Unseen (Masks), Ellis, London, Black Dog Publishing, 2015, pg. 25, pl. 3
Moon Dancers: Yup'ik Masks and the Surrealists, Field, Jennifer (Ed.), Di Donna Galleries, New York, 2018, pgs 108-109, 141
Related Examples
The Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB – See: Ager Wallen, Lynn. The Face of Dance: Yup’ik Eskimo Masks From Alaska. Calgary: The Glenbow Museum, 1990, I-V for a group of complex masks also collected by Ralph and Anna Sullivan at Hooper Bay, Alaska
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Charles and Valerie Diker collection), New York – See: Ellis, Donald. Art of the Arctic: Reflections of the Unseen (Masks). London: Black Dog Publishing, 2015
Alaska State Museum, Nos. IIA5393 and IIA5404 (The Millote Collection) - See: Fienup-Riordan, Ann. The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996, pgs. 291 and 293 for two later masks of similar form carved at Hooper Bay in the 1940s.
