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Object Number
17-17-10/87190
Display Title
Transformation mask
Descriptions
Indigenous Term
quan E mlh
Object Description
Transformation mask: raven sun clan mask with beak in 4 parts. Used at potlatches to show crests of owner who inherited them from his father.
Inventory Description
Mask, carved wood, painted
Classification
- Mask
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1917 or earlier
Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
Canada
/
British Columbia
/
Harbledown Island
/
Tsatsichinukwomi
Additional Geographic Terms
Queen Charlotte Sound
Dimensions
Overall: 45 x 52 x 30 cm (17 11/16 x 20 1/2 x 11 13/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Provenance
Expedition
Peabody Museum Expedition
(1917)
Collector
Dr. Charles Frederick Newcombe
(09/1907)
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
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for Transformation mask
| 17-17-10/87190A | Transformation mask |
Headband
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Tsatsichinukwomi
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| 2004.24.30152 | Bird mask; raven sun clan made with beak in four parts; quax emlh |
Harbledown Island
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| 995-29-10/73518 | Transformation mask |
Mask
|
North America
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| 2004.24.32160A | Transformation mask |
United States
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| 2004.24.32160B | Transformation mask |
United States
| ||
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Media Restricted
| 17-17-10/87188 | Clan mask. "Tso-no-kwah" |
Mask
|
Gwa I
| |
| 995-29-10/73519A | Unpainted Echo mask (A) with beak (B) attachable by pin (C) |
Mask
|
Vancouver Island
| |
| 69-30-10/1602 | Wooden Humanoid Bird/Bear Mask |
Mask
|
Alaska
| |
| 2004.29.3437 | Chief's house, Raven's crest, newly assumed, winter 1916-1917 |
Gwaestums
| ||
| 17-17-10/87191 | Clan mask. Mountain hawk and ancestor. |
Mask
|
Tsatsichinukwomi
| |
| 2008.20.58 | Carving, "Shaman transformation" |
Carving
|
Inukjuak
| |
| 15-36-10/86506 | Shield made from neck part of buck deer skin |
Shield
|
British Columbia
|