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Wooden mask
Object Number 14-27-10/85874
Display Title Wooden mask
Descriptions
Inventory Description Carved wooden human face mask, painted red, black, perforated.
Classification
  • Mask
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Gitksan
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia / <County> / Kishpiyeoux Village
Additional Geographic Terms Skeena River; Hazleton, 1 or 2 miles above
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 23 x 18.7 x 10.2 cm (9 1/16 x 7 3/8 x 4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 14-27-10/85874 & 121
Provenance
Collector Lt. George Thornton Emmons (?)
Donor Lt. George Thornton Emmons (1914)

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