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.

National Museum of the American Indian

Culture/People

Yup'ik (Yupik Eskimo)

Artist/Maker

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

IACB source

Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center Shop (Anchorage Museum of History and Art Shop/Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum Shop)

Previous owner

Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-

Title

Visions of a Nuclear Future

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

See related items

Yup'ik (Yupik Eskimo)

Works of Art (Other)

Place

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

Date created

May 1987

Object Type

Works of Art (Other)

Catalog Number

25/5422

Barcode

255422.000