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Object Number 10-47-10/76826
Display Title Mask representing Djilakons
Descriptions
Object Description Mask. Probably represents Djilakons, an ancestress of the Haida Eagle moiety, who was often represented as wearing a large labret.
Inventory Description Carved wooden mask, human face with labret, painted blue, red, black.
Classification
  • Mask
Department Ethnographic
Date 1828 or earlier
Artist Kaigani Master of the Labret Woman
Culture
  • Kaigani
  • Haida
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada
Materials Wood, Pigment
Dimensions Overall: 25 × 19 × 14 cm (9 13/16 × 7 1/2 × 5 1/2 in.) Storage: 38.7351 × 29.2101 × 7.62 cm (15 1/4 × 11 1/2 × 3 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object Inscription on mask interior (see Remarks); 10-47-10/76826; L52/2/89; Correct likeness of / Jenna Cafs, a high chief woman /
Credit Line Exchange from the American Antiquarian Society, 1910
Provenance
Collector J. Goodwin (1826)
Exchange participant American Antiquarian Society (1910)

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