The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mask

Date:: 19th century
Geography:: United States, Alaska
Culture:: Yup'ik
Medium:: Wood, paint
Dimensions:: H.19 3/8 x W. 5 7/8 x D. 6 3/8 in. (49.2 x 14.9 x 16. 2 cm)
Classification:: Wood-Sculpture
Credit Line:: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1961
Accession Number:: 1978.412.77

This artwork is not on display

Provenance

Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York (12/926), 1923–1944; [Julius Carlebach, New York, 1944]; Dolores Vanetti Ehrenreich, New York, by 1945–1961; The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1961–1978
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