Data Source

National Museum of the American Indian

Artists/Makers

Ayap'run Jack Abraham (Jack Abraham), Yup'ik (Yupik Eskimo), b. 1956

Object Name

Mask

Media/Materials

Yellow cedar, horsehair, walrus ivory, sea snail (turban snail) opercula, yarn, commercially tanned leather

Techniques

Carved, wrapped, tied

Dimensions

44 x 27.5 x 13.2 cm

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place

Anchorage; Cook Inlet Native Corporation; Alaska; USA (inferred)

Collection History

Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Anchorage Museum of History and Art museum shop (Anchorage, Alaska) in 1988; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.

Date Created

1987

Object Type

Works of Art (Other)

Catalog Number

25/5422

Culture/People

Yup'ik (Yupik Eskimo)