Yupʼik masks - Wikipedia
WEBYup'ik masks (Yup'ik kegginaquq sg kegginaquk dual kegginaqut pl and nepcetaq sg nepcetat pl; in the Lower Yukon dialects avangcaq sg avangcak dual avangcat pl ; in Nunivak Cup'ig dialect agayu) are expressive shamanic ritual masks made by the Yup'ik people of southwestern Alaska.
Yup’ik masks: Native Alaskan surrealists - new guinea tribal arts
WEBThere is a huge variety of Yup’ik masks but characterized by their inventive surrealism. They are usually made of wood painted with few colors and sometimes decorated with feathers. Masked varied in size from small three-inch finger masks to ten-kilo masks carried by several people.
North Wind Mask (Negakfok) | Yup'ik | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBThe mask here, one of a pair, represents "Negakfok," meaning the north wind or, more eloquently, the spirit that likes cold and stormy weather. Its white spots are said to represent snow flakes, and the many wood danglers clattered when moved giving a voice to the spirit of the north wind.
North Wind Mask - Smarthistory
WEBMany different materials were used to create Yup’ik masks. In a wonderful, animated mask from around 1910 now in the National Museum of the American Indian in New York (left), a Yupik carver used driftwood, baleen, feathers, paint, and cotton twine to create a mask representing a grinning face.
Dance Mask | Yup'ik | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBDance Mask. During the long, harsh winters in the Arctic, local people traditionally gathered indoors for celebrations of performance cycles. These featured feasts and masked dances in order to maintain harmony between the human, animal, and supernatural realms for …
Mask | Yup'ik, Native American | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBYup'ik, Native American. ca. 1900. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 746. Worn during dance ceremonies, this Yup’ik mask depicts the artist’s vision of the universe.
Mask, Yup'ik | Mia - Minneapolis Institute of Art
WEBYup'ik people have long maintained an annual cycle of ceremonies and festivals, passing Arctic nights in storytelling, singing, and dramatic masked performances. The purpose of these events is to enlist spiritual aid for survival in the harsh climate.
Two Yup'ik Masks at Home and Abroad - The Menil Collection
WEBThe Menil exhibition MicroCosmos: Details from the Carpenter Collection of Arctic Art (August 2015–February 2016) displays much of the Old Bering Sea material he collected, and also includes two Yup’ik masks, one of which, a wolf, Carpenter included in the original 1999 installation of Witnesses.
Yup’ik Dance Traditions - The Menil Collection
WEBIn visual terms, then, many dance masks of the Yup’ik are elaborate composite sculptures. The ones that have survived, now in museums and private collections, did so because they caught the attention of visitors, who recognized in them objects of great artistic accomplishment.
Beautifully carved masks embody the spirits honored by the Yup'ik ...
WEBDec 29, 2017 · Wooden mask, fur, feather, leaf and stalks, 57 cm, Kuskokwim Bay, 1930s. The masks formed part of the belief in a complicated spiritual life that honored those beings that made life livable for the Yupiit in their harsh homeland.