Mask - 70-9-777 | Collections

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
Early Date:	1900
Late Date:	1968
Section:	American
Materials:	Wood Fur Pigment
Iconography:	Booger Dance
Length:	25 cm
Width:	19 cm
Credit Line:	Bequest of Samuel Pennypacker, 1970
Other Number:	NA1731 - Collector Number

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)

Bibliography:

	[Other] Wm. D. Morley, Inc. Inventory and Appraisement - Personal Property - The Estate of Samuel W. Pennypacker, 2nd, Dec'd. - Haldeman Road Schwenksville, RD 1 Penna. October 15, 1968.. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 28	View Objects related to this Actual Citation