Mask
29-175-480
From: Canada | British Columbia | Vancouver Island
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29-175-480 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Kwakiutl |
| Provenience | Canada | British Columbia | Vancouver Island |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Copper | Pigment |
| Description | representing human face. ROund eyes of bulging piece of copper with slit across center. Elaborate headdress starts with two snakes just above brows. Snake's heads face each other in center, teeth bared. Above this face with bird's beak nailed on and its own comblike headdress (4 "teeth" to each side) with small face in center (teeth bared). Bottom of mask curved upward, cheek ends longest, no chin. Whole mask concavo-convex. Top narrower than bottom. Painted red and blue with some natural wood showing. |
| Length | 42.3 cm |
| Width | 27 cm |
| Depth | 18 cm |
| Credit Line | Exchange with George G. Heye, 1917 |
| Other Number | 6/8795 - Collector Number |
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