Nepcetaq Mask

Yup'ik
Western Arctic
Arctic

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collected 1903-1904

Wood, paint, rawhide, nails, and turkey feathers (replacement)

Overall: 19 1/8 × 20 11/16 in. (48.5 × 52.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Lt. Col. Alfred T. Clifton, Class of 1927P

42.15.7803

Geography

Place Made: St. Michael, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Ceremonial Artifact: Mask

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic

Not on view

Course History

ANTH 32, AMES 26, Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalayas, Sienna Craig, Spring 2013

ENVS 80, BIOL 148, Polar Science, Policy, and Ethics, Ross Virginia, Spring 2012

NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Spring 2012

NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2013

WRIT 5, Expository Writing, William Nichols, Winter 2012

NAS 37, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Medeia Krisztina C. DeHass, Spring 2013

ENVS 80, BIOL 148, Polar Science, Policy, and Ethics, Ross Virginia, Spring 2013

ANTH 17, The Anthropology of Health and Illness, Lauren Gulbas, Fall 2013

REL 1, Patterns of Religious Experience, Elizabeth Perez, Fall 2013

NAS 37, ANTH 47, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Winter 2014

ANTH 12.11, NAS 30, Arctic Crossroads: Its Peoples, Cultures, and History, William Fitzhugh, Winter 2015

NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2015

NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2015

NAS 37, ANTH 37, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Spring 2015

SART 65, Architecture I, Zenovia Toloudi, Spring 2015

WRIT 7 , Religion and Literature: Re-visioning the Natural, Nancy Crumbine, Spring 2015

ENVS 15, Environmental Issues: Earth's Cold Region, Spring 2019

Arctic Health Conference Viewing, Winter 2020

Exhibition History

Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 19, 2002-February 16, 2003.

Anthropology of Religion, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 48, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30-May 2, 2004.

Faces of Culture: Masks from the Permanent Collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 1, 1991-November 1, 1993.

Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Peoples and Cultures of the Northwest Coast and Arctic Regions, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22, 1990- October 14, 1990.

Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 2011-March 12, 2012.

Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Juanuary 27-May 13,2007.

Publication History

Nicole Stuckenberger, Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 53, no.29.

George P. Horse Capture, Sr., Joe D. Horse Capture, Joseph M. Sanchez, et al., Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, ill. on p.11 and p. 137, no. 5.

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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