Mask
29-175-31
From: Canada | British Columbia
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29-175-31 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Nuu-chah-nulth |
| Provenience | Canada | British Columbia |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Pigment |
| Description | Human face. handle bound across back. Simply carved. Pupils, nostrils and five spaces between teeth round piercings. Large beaked nose. Two black raven heads, with natural-wood-colored eyes and red mouth-openings, nailed, hornlike, above eyebrows. Blue paint: curved eyebrows, "whites" of eyes, designs on cheeks. Red paint: two dashes each side of face; upper lip; each side of chin. |
| Height | 55.88 |
| Width | 40.64 |
| Depth | 25.4 |
| Credit Line | Exchange with George G. Heye, 1917 |
| Other Number | 6/9135 - Collector Number |
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