Mask
29-175-21
From: Canada | British Columbia
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29-175-21 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Kwakiutl |
| Provenience | Canada | British Columbia |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Period | Late 19th Century |
| Date Made | 1850-1899 CE |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Cedar Bark | Hair | Pigment |
| Description | Human face. Hair of cedar bark and grey horsehair. Mustache of horsehair. Pupils, nostrils and down curved mouth pierced. Eyebrows, eyes, nose and lips carved in relief. Black paint: two of carved grooves on forehead; eyebrows; rows of dashes above and below eyes; extended, hooked tip of nose; lips; center of chin. Blue paint: around eyes across bridge of nose. Red paint: "whites" of eyes, marks on cheeks, alae of nose. Narrow, curved strips of wood nailed on each side of face. |
| Length | 38.8 cm |
| Width | 30.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Exchange with George G. Heye, 1917 |
| Other Number | 8/1583 - Collector Number |
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