Mask
70-9-777
From: United States of America | North Carolina | Big Cove | Cherokee
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 70-9-777 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Cherokee |
| Provenience | United States of America | North Carolina | Big Cove | Cherokee |
| Culture Area | Southeast Culture Area |
| Date Made | 1900-1968 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Fur | Pigment |
| Iconography | Booger Dance |
| Description | Prominent nose with carved oval holes for eyes set close to prominent nose bridge; open mouth with two rows of comblike teeth; large ears; coarse animal fur covers top of mask with two locks of human hair behind ears and tufts of hair along forehead line; yellow pigment covers face; red pigment on lower lip, above eyes, and in deepest cuts; black pigment in continuous "eyebrow" above eyes, below eyes and around lip area. Number NA1731 written in ink on lower left inside edge. Condition: Some hair falling out. Sent for freezing 6/91. See lead card (before 70-9-776) |
| Length | 25 cm |
| Width | 19 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Samuel Pennypacker, 1970 |
| Other Number | NA1731 - Collector Number |
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