Mask

29-175-22

From: Canada | British Columbia | Vancouver Island

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 29-175-22
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Kwakiutl
Provenience Canada | British Columbia | Vancouver Island
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Wood | Pigment
Description

Human face. Small. Slightly concave horizontal band from ears across cheek-bones to nose. Very widely open smiling mouth with drooping lower lip; upper lip joined to nose. Black paint: ornamental bands at top of forehead, very wide eyebrows, irises and outline of eyes, a wide band between two narrow ones across nose and cheeks, a narrow and a wide band on chin. Red paint: cross on forehead, (over) inside and outside of pierced nostrils, mouth including lips and tongue.

Height 13.3 cm
Width 10.5 cm
Credit Line Exchange with George G. Heye, 1917
Other Number 7/2990 - Collector Number

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