Figure
29-175-100
From: Canada | British Columbia | Bella Bella (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 29-175-100 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Heiltsuk (uncertain) |
Provenience | Canada | British Columbia | Bella Bella (uncertain) |
Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Wood | Cedar Bark | Pigment |
Technique | Carved |
Description | Head and shoulders of man. Back flat and hollow. Stumps of cedar bark hair above forehead. Simplified realistic. Eye-brows, "mask", lips and mustache in relief. Incised outline of right eye. Black paint: irises, chin, and "mask" across eyes and nose with hooked extensions to top of forehead. Red paint: ears and top-center forehead. Trace of yellow on mustache. |
Height | 19.3 cm |
Width | 10.8 cm |
Thickness | 9.5 cm |
Credit Line | Exchange with George G. Heye, 1917 |
Other Number | 6/9085 - Collector Number |
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