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Object Number
17-17-10/87188
Display Title
Clan mask. "Tso-no-kwah"
Descriptions
Indigenous Term
Dsonokwumlh
Object Description
Clan mask. Made of yellow cedar or alder wood. Painted with red vermillion and black graphite. Human hair. Represents "Tso-no-kwah", a wild forest being. Worn by chief while speaking at potlatches.
Inventory Description
Mask, carved wood, painted black, red, white, human hair attached
Classification
- Mask
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1870-1899
Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
Canada
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British Columbia
/
<County>
/
<City>
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Gwa I
Additional Geographic Terms
Kingcome Inlet; Queen Charlotte Sound
Materials
Wood, Hair, Pigment
Dimensions
Overall: 36 x 25 x 16 cm (14 3/16 x 9 13/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Provenance
Expedition
Peabody Museum Expedition
(1917)
Collector
Dr. Charles Frederick Newcombe
(09/1917)
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
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Media Restricted
| 17-17-10/87189 | Dzunukwa Mask |
Mask
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Gwa I
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| 2004.24.30129 | Clan Mask of yellow cedar |
Gwa Island
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Image Not Available
for Small fragments in plastic bag from object 17-17-10/87189
| 17-17-10/87189.1 | Small fragments in plastic bag from object 17-17-10/87189 |
Gwa I
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| 17-17-10/87190 | Transformation mask |
Mask
|
Tsatsichinukwomi
| |
| 17-17-10/87191 | Clan mask. Mountain hawk and ancestor. |
Mask
|
Tsatsichinukwomi
| |
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Image Not Available
for Transformation mask
| 17-17-10/87190A | Transformation mask |
Headband
|
Tsatsichinukwomi
| |
| 69-30-10/1603 | Painted wooden mask |
Mask
|
Alaska
| |
| 17-17-10/87202 | Galukw'aml (Crooked-beak mask) |
Mask
|
Gwa I
| |
| 977-30-10/58192 | Carved and painted wooden mask, of a human face. |
Raw Material
Mask |
Alaska
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| 2004.24.17140 | Wooden face mask, Somi clan |
Be Town
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| 2004.24.17139 | Wooden face mask, Somi clan |
Be Town
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| 2004.24.17141 | Wooden face mask, Somi clan |
Be Town
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