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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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