Mask

Object Number:

29-175-21

Current Location:

Collections storage

Culture:

Kwakiutl

Provenience:

Canada
British Columbia

Culture Area:

Northwest Coast

Section:

American

Materials:

Wood
Cedar Bark
Hair
Pigment

Description:

Human face. Hair of cedar bark and grey horsehair. Mustache of horsehair. Pupils, nostrils and down curved mouth pierced. Eyebrows, eyes, nose and lips carved in relief. Black paint: two of carved grooves on forehead; eyebrows; rows of dashes above and below eyes; extended, hooked tip of nose; lips; center of chin. Blue paint: around eyes across bridge of nose. Red paint: "whites" of eyes, marks on cheeks, alae of nose. Narrow, curved strips of wood nailed on each side of face.

Length:

38.8cm

Width:

30.5cm

Credit Line:

Exchange from George G. Heye before 1917

Other Number:

8/1583

Collector Number

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