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Exhibition History"Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of the Bering Strait," Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, September 29, 2009 - January 6, 2010.
"Art of the American Indian: The Thaw Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, March 2, 2010 - May 30, 2010; Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN, October 24, 2010 - January 9, 2011; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, April 24, 2011 - September 23, 2011; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, December 4, 2011 - February 12, 2012.
ProvenanceGift of George Terasaki (82), New York City
Bibliography"Tenth Anniversary of the Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art, 1995-2005" in Heritage magazine, 2005, vol 20. pg. 52-53.
Brown, Steven C. Transfigurations: North Pacific Coast Art George Terasaki Collector. Seattle: Marquand Books, 2006, plate 62.
Fitzhugh, William W. and Julie Hollowell and Aron L. Crowell, editors, Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait. New Jersey: Princeton University Art Museum and New Haven: Yale Universtiy Press, 2009. p.167 and 310.
Fognell, Eva, ed. Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, NY: Fenimore Art Museum, 2010, pp. 150 and 151.
Fognell, Eva and Alexander Brier Marr, eds. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum, 2nd ed. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2016, p. 470.
Goggles
Datec. A.D. 100-500
MediumWalrus ivory
DimensionsOverall: 1 1/2 × 5 1/4 × 1/2 in. (3.8 × 13.3 × 1.3 cm)
Object numberT0811
Credit LineGift of George Terasaki
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextThese elegantly carved goggles have a distinct raised brow and inverted whale’s tail nose. These goggles may have been used like masks at ceremonies where songs and stories dramatically recounted the different forces in Alaskan Native life. Masks helped enact transformations between humans or animals or to animate the many unseen spirits of the natural world.Exhibition History"Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of the Bering Strait," Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, September 29, 2009 - January 6, 2010.
"Art of the American Indian: The Thaw Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, March 2, 2010 - May 30, 2010; Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN, October 24, 2010 - January 9, 2011; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, April 24, 2011 - September 23, 2011; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, December 4, 2011 - February 12, 2012.
ProvenanceGift of George Terasaki (82), New York City
Bibliography"Tenth Anniversary of the Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art, 1995-2005" in Heritage magazine, 2005, vol 20. pg. 52-53.
Brown, Steven C. Transfigurations: North Pacific Coast Art George Terasaki Collector. Seattle: Marquand Books, 2006, plate 62.
Fitzhugh, William W. and Julie Hollowell and Aron L. Crowell, editors, Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait. New Jersey: Princeton University Art Museum and New Haven: Yale Universtiy Press, 2009. p.167 and 310.
Fognell, Eva, ed. Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, NY: Fenimore Art Museum, 2010, pp. 150 and 151.
Fognell, Eva and Alexander Brier Marr, eds. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum, 2nd ed. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2016, p. 470.
On View
On view1400-1500
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