Mask sculpture
- Date created
- 1968
- Culture/People
- Iñupiaq
- Artist/Maker
- Joseph E. Senungetuk (Inusuyauq Sinuyituq/Joseph Engasongwok Senungetuk), Iñupiaq, 1940-2023 and Peter John Seeganna (Peter J. Seeganna), Bering Strait Iñupiaq [King Island], 1938-1974
- IACB source
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board Office, Sitka, Alaska (IACB Office, Sitka, Alaska)
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board Demonstration Workshop (Sitka, Alaska) (IACB Demonstration Workshop)
- Collection History
- Made as prototypes for larger sculptures produced as part of the Fairbanks Civic Center in Fairbanks, Alaska, for the 1967 Alaska Centennial; formerly in the collection held by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board Office in Sitka, Alaska, which included many pieces produced and acquired during IACB demonstration-workshops held in Sitka between 1962 and 1968; transferred to the IACB Headquarters collection in Washington, DC, in 1969; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Place
- Sitka; Sealaska Native Corporation; Alaska; USA (inferred)
- Archipelago
- Alexander Archipelago
- Island Name
- Baranof Island
- See related items
- Iñupiaq
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 25/9261
- Barcode
- 259261.000
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Object Name
- Mask sculpture
- Media/Materials
- Yellow cedar, paint
- Techniques
- Carved, painted
- Dimensions
- 30.7 x 30.7 x 5 cm
- Record ID
- NMAI_275250