Mask
29-175-52
From: Canada | British Columbia | Vancouver Island
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29-175-52 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Kwakiutl |
| Provenience | Canada | British Columbia | Vancouver Island |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Pigment |
| Description | Wolf head. Made in three pieces with wedge forming floor of lower jaw. Top of head opening continued through turned-up nose, pierced to form nostrils. Three large piercings in carved crest above each eye. Eye long oval, black pupil. Mouth pierced slit except in front. Pierced at corners of mouth. Red: tip of snout, nostrils, irises, groove around mouth, grooved eyebrows, crests, below jaw, sunk lens-shapes continuing brows. Otherwise black. |
| Height | 20.2 cm |
| Length | 40 cm |
| Width | 19.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Exchange with George G. Heye, 1917 |
| Other Number | 6/8814 - Collector Number |
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