Miniature mask
Life Story
This tiny maskette is tentatively ascribed to the Okvik style. It is hollowed at the back and has a small hole at each side (now broken), perhaps for attachment to a costume or a doll.
Steven Hooper, 1997
Entry taken from Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection, Vol. 2: Pacific, African and Native North American Art, edited by Steven Hooper (Yale University Press, 1997) p. 227.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert and Lisa Sainsbury in 1983.
Accessioned into the Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia circa 1994.
On display
Title/Description: Miniature mask
Born: 0200 c. BC - 0100 c.
Object Type: Mask
Materials: Wood
Measurements: h. 45 mm
Accession Number: 429
Historic Period: Old Bering Sea I (200 BC-AD 100), 2nd century BC, 1st century
Production Place: Bering Sea, North America, The Americas
