Mask
| 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 |
| [Book] Preucel, Robert W., and Wierzbowski, William S., and Williams, Lucy F. 2005. Native American Voices on Identity, Art and Culture: Objects of Everlasting Esteem.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Pages 176-177/Plate 71 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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