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Mask
Object Number 15-14-10/86044
Display Title Mask
Descriptions
Object Description Mask; carved in form of a face, in full relief with low relief detail around eyes and eye brows. Open, purchased mouth has no teeth. Painted intense blue with bilateral fin or feather motifs. Perforations along forehead and temples. May have held hair attachments. Singing spirit with tentacles. Depicts a spirit singing as indicated by pursed lips. Painted in blue, black and red. Seven red devilfish tentacles project out from the mouth. Mouth is almost beak like with its pointed, pursed lips. This might indicate that the mask also represents a bird spirit.
Inventory Description Carved human face mask, polychrome painted, mended
Classification
  • Mask
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Tlingit
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Materials Cedar, Pigment
Dimensions Overall: 12 x 17 x 24 cm (4 3/4 x 6 11/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 15-14-10/86044
Provenance
Collector Unknown
Intermediary Grace A. Nicholson (01/01/1915)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (01/01/1915)

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