Wooden helmet, in form of head of a man, hair attached; painted red, black and blue. Label: "Fighting headdress and collar carving represents a worm, the same tradition as feast pipe.
Donor:
Ellinor C. Davidson and George Davidson
Collection place:
Northwest Coast, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northwest Coast
Culture or time period:
Tlingit
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Accession date:
1945
Context of use:
War helmet. Worn with hide or slat armor.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 22 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 13-2351, 2352; 15-21779a,b; 15-21805. Published: "Art of the NW Coast Indians" Fig. 99, R.B. Inverarity, U.C. Press, 1950; Illustrated in R.H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology catalog, "Art of the Northwest Coast", Spring exhibit, March 26-October 17, 1965, p. 89. Illustrated: "The Alaska Native Arts Come Home" by Erna Gunther, Centennial Exposition catalog, May 25-September 30, 1967, Fairbanks, Alaska, p. 8. Wardwell (1964), "Yakutat South: Indian Art of the Northwest Coast", Art Institute of Chicago, p. 20, pl. 3. Published: "Image and Identity The Role of the Mask in Various Cultures", Exhibit guide, An Exhibition Organized by the UCLA Museum of Cultural History, April 11-June 3, 1972. Page 22, #103. Exhibit and Illustrated: "The Far North: 2000 Years of American Eskimo and Indian Art" The National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1973 (Exhibited March 7-May 15, 1973 at the National Gallery, then traveling); p. 251. Exhibited: Centennial Exposition, May 27-September 30, 1967, Fairbanks, Alaska.
Loans:
S1951-1952 #1: University of California, Los Angeles (March 15, 1952–returned by 1957), S1952-1953 #2: California Palace of the Legion of Honor (dates unknown), S1963-1964 #58: Art Institute of Chicago (February 4, 1964–May 15, 1964), S1963-1964 #9: UC San Francisco Medical Center (September 3, 1963–October 11, 1963), S1966-1967 #89: University of Alaska, Fairbanks (April 17, 1967–October 2, 1967), S1970-1971 #21: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (October 12, 1970–January 20, 1971), S1971-1972 #26: Whitney Museum of American Art (October 4, 1971–January 20, 1972), S1971-1972 #85: University of California, Los Angeles (February 2, 1972–July 10, 1972), S1972-1973 #16: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art (October 16, 1972–June 11, 1974), S1979-1980 #48: University of California, Davis (April 1, 1980–June 9, 1980), S1990-1991 #23: Blackhawk Museums (March 20, 1991–August 16, 1994), S2009-2010 #11b: SFO Museum (dates unknown), and S2009-2010 #11: SFO Museum (dates unknown)