Mask (Human Face)
Deg Hit'an
Dene (Athabascan)
Subarctic
collected 1903-1904
Cottonwood and spruce wood, paint, winter-tanned seal skin, and traces of long caribou neck hair
Overall: 7 1/2 × 5 1/8 in. (19 × 13 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Lt. Col. Alfred T. Clifton, Class of 1927P
42.15.7802
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact: Mask
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Subarctic
Not on view
Publication History
Nicole Stuckenberger, Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 61, no.30.
Provenance
Collected by Lt. Col. Alfred Theodore Clifton (1875-1944) with the U.S. Army Signal Corps aboard the cable ship Burnside, St. Michael, Alaska, 1903-1904; given to present collection (through his son, Alfred Theodore Clifton, Jr. (1906-1996), Class of 1927), 1942.
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