Mask
- Museum number:
- 2-66926
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020066926
- Accession number:
- Acc.3848
- Description:
- Wood, zoomorphic, sculpted polychrome in natural, red, green, and black. Prominent bear-like snout, open mouth with 4 fangs holding stylized fish. Eyes shadowed in bright green paint. Back inscribed "$85". Equipped with 2 small eye bolts and hanging wire. Yellow cedar, commercial paint.
- Donor:
- Kathryn Brownell
- Collection place:
- British Columbia, Canada
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Canada; British Columbia
- Culture or time period:
- Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
- Collector:
- William A. Brownell
- Collection date:
- 1965
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Masks (costume)
- Function:
- 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
- Context of use:
- Mask or carved segment made from totem pole or house post. Made for sale.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- depth 19 centimeters, height 37 centimeters, and width 28.5 centimeters
- Legacy documentation: