A shamanic mask from Alaska
Julien Flak presents a shamanic mask from Alaska, featured in the exhibition
“Faces – From the Visible to the Invisible”
Galerie Flak, Paris, March 2021
Human – animal mask
Saint Michael, Lower Yukon
Yup’ik (Eskimo), Alaska
Carved wood, leather and pigments
Late 19th century
Height: 9 in. (23 cm )
History:
Collected in Anvik, Alaska
Ex collection Heye Foundation, Museum of the American Indian, inventory # 5/941
Sold to Julius Carlebach in 1944
Ex collection Jeffrey Myers, c. 2003
Ex private collection, New York, acquired from the above
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