United States of America | Florida | Southwest Coast (Florida) | Collier County | Key Marco
Culture Area
Southeast Culture Area
Date Made
700-1560 CE
Section
American
Materials
Wood | Pigment
Iconography
Deer Head
Description
C=PL Ear. Highly finished and life-like figure head of deer with ear pieces accompanying; beautifully painted in blue, black and white colors. To conventionally represent aspect of deer face. Found bundled. Sketches and cast taken. Nearly perfect, complete, but shrunken and broken mask of Deer Man God; found perfect. Cast and sketched. Painted in black, white and blue, to represent deer aspect.
Dockstader, Frederick J. Indian Art in North America: Arts and Crafts. Fourth Printing ed. Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society. See: Fig 58
Madeira, Percy C. Men in Search of Man: The First Seventy-Five Years of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1964. See: p. 82
Douglas, Frederic H., and Rene d'Harnoncourt. Indian Art of the United States. New York, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1941. See: Page 80
