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Mask
Object Number 98-4-10/51671
Display Title Mask
Descriptions
Object Description Mask representing Djilakons. Carved with large labret in lower lip, painted in blue, red, black.
Inventory Description Carved wooden human face mask, with labret, painted red, blue, black designs.
Classification
  • Mask
Department Ethnographic
Date ca.1830
Culture
  • Tlingit?
  • Haida?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Additional Geographic Terms Northwest Coast
Materials Wood, Pigment
Dimensions Overall: 20.5 × 15 × 12.7 cm (8 1/16 × 5 7/8 × 5 in.) Storage: 24.13 × 24.765 × 7.62 cm (9 1/2 × 9 3/4 × 3 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 98-4-10/51671
Credit Line Gift of William Sturgis Bigelow, 1898
Provenance
Collector Unknown (?)
Donor Dr. William Sturgis Bigelow (1898)

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