Helmet

29-175-648

From: Canada | British Columbia | Queen Charlotte Islands (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 29-175-648
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Haida
Provenience Canada | British Columbia | Queen Charlotte Islands (uncertain)
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Wood | Pigment | Glass | Cotton
Description

Painted cedar wood; conical base with flaring edges; four "tinas" or coppers, evenly spaced around sides, with face on each that may be beaver; coppers painted in red, blue and black; isolated red motif between each copper and red and black motif around top. Small painted (red and black) wooden panels interspersed with glass panels sewn to cloth to form a ring, around top; this is surmounted by four rather broad twined basketry rings of which bottom one is painted red, next blue, and top two in red and blue stripes; top one ends in a small open funnel.

Height 38.7 cm
Outside Diameter 39.8 cm
Credit Line Exchange with George G. Heye, 1917
Other Number 6/9264 - Collector Number

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