Mask
40-33-3
From: Canada | British Columbia
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 40-33-3 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tsimshian (uncertain) |
| Provenience | Canada | British Columbia |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Pigment |
| Description | Wooden; massive. Deeply carved and painted black, red, and blue. Human face, wearing hawk headdress. The two halves of the face, which probably also represents the hawk, are differently painted; the right, with the bird's talons on the cheek; the left, with three heavy diverging lines on the cheek and a row of black dots below the eye. |
| Height | 59.5 cm |
| Width | 43 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of William Hinckle Smith, 1940 |
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