#22 • A Nunivak Island Spirit Mask Body - Peter L. Smith

Part of March 2026 Discovery Auction (timed auction by Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals)

High bid $300.00

Status: Sold

Category: Ethnographic Objects

A polychrome wooden spirit wheel featuring a central avian figure with a fox face painted upon its back; bird is suspended between two bentwood rods and prepared for hanging en verso. Signed by Cu'pig artist Peter L. Smith of Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island, Alaska; the artist's works are held within the collection of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian. The work is the body of the mask only, all once present appendages have been lost to the ages. Measures approximately 11" x 4" x 18.5" tall.