Yupʼik masks
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Tununak trader I. A. Lee. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
.Yup'ik masks (
qasgiq using these masks. They most often create masks for ceremonies but the masks are traditionally destroyed after being used. After Christian contact in the late nineteenth century, masked dancing was suppressed, and today it is not practiced as it was before in the Yup'ik villages.[1][2][3]
While the
Iñupiaq and Yup'ik are culturally and ethnically related, separated only by language differences and, often, hundreds of miles of territory, they have developed distinct versions of similar traditional mask forms. In the case of the Iñupiaq, masks are typically less elaborate than those made by their Yup'ik neighbors to the south-east, and usually smaller, covering only the face.[4]
Yup'ik masks are often compared to the European
surrealist tradition. A 2018 show in New York City explored this comparison.[5]
See also
- Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center
- Yup'ik dancing
- Qargi
- Bladder Festival
- Messenger Feast
References
- ^ www.mnh.si.edu: Agayuliyararput (Our Way of Making Prayer)
- ^ Feinup-Riordan, Ann (2005). Yup'ik Elders at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin: Fieldwork Turned on Its Head. University of Washington Press.
- ^ Lynn Ager Wallen (1999), The Milotte Mask Collection, Alaska State Museums Conceps, Second Reprint of Technical Paper Number 2, July 1999
- ^ Sean Mooney, The Art of the Spirit World: Volume III The ARCTIC. The Steven Michaan Collection of North American Tribal Arts
- ^ [https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/06/03/the-surrealists-dance-with-the-yupik-mask/ The Surrealists’ Dance with the Yup’ik Mask], by Gini Alhadeff , New York Review of Books. Posted June 3, 2018
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