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$31,200

Yup'ik Carved and Painted Wood Mask, c. late 19th century, a bird head, possibly a puffin, on top of a circular human-like face with pierced eyes and nostrils, the downturned mouth with slightly protruding tongue, remnant black and red detail on face and frame surface, encircled by two wooden hoops (one painted red), with attached feathers and symbolic wood pieces including a hand, a fox, a leg, and various geometric shapes attached with strips of baleen, (some of these have been temporarily reattached for photography, the back at some time was painted with a thin coat of commercial paint), ht. without attachments 12 1/2 in. Provenance: Collected by Gustaf Osterberg, Chief mate on the USCGS ship " Yukon ," possibly on Nunivak Island. Starting in 1913, Osterberg made at least five summer trips to survey the Bering Sea portion of the Alaskan Coast and Aleutian Islands for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic survey. One cruise went as far as Vladivostok in Russia, where the Yukon became iced in, requiring the crew's return to the U.S. via the Trans-Siberian Railway. The mask being offered has descended in the family. Literature: The Far North, 2,000 years of American Eskimo and Indian Art , p. 122.


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Date:
2013-02-11

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