Mask
29-175-22
From: Canada | British Columbia | Vancouver Island
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29-175-22 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Kwakiutl |
| Provenience | Canada | British Columbia | Vancouver Island |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Pigment |
| Description | Human face. Small. Slightly concave horizontal band from ears across cheek-bones to nose. Very widely open smiling mouth with drooping lower lip; upper lip joined to nose. Black paint: ornamental bands at top of forehead, very wide eyebrows, irises and outline of eyes, a wide band between two narrow ones across nose and cheeks, a narrow and a wide band on chin. Red paint: cross on forehead, (over) inside and outside of pierced nostrils, mouth including lips and tongue. |
| Height | 13.3 cm |
| Width | 10.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Exchange with George G. Heye, 1917 |
| Other Number | 7/2990 - Collector Number |
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