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Portrait Mask
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Portrait Mask
Portrait Mask

Portrait Mask

Datec. 1884
Mediumwood, mammal hair, mammal skin
DimensionsOther: 23.5 × 12 × 26.7 cm (9 1/4 × 4 3/4 × 10 1/2 in.)
ClassificationsCeremonial Objects
Paper Field ReferencesCMH VII-B-6
Object numberHRC 00006
DescriptionFace mask, Kilora's wife, wood
- 'Kilora's wife' in the Loon's Necklace
- skin all painted dark red/brown, natural wood hair, labret iin bottom lip. Black eyes and brows.
- holes in nostrils and earlobes
- 2 swatches grey wavy hair attached at centre part.
Exhibition HistoryCrawley Films Ott. (3-48) - (5-48) Art Gallery Winn. (12-54) - (1-55) Crawley Films Ott. ? - (1-55) Exhibit Stratford (6-60) - (9-60) I. Delgado (1-61) - (5-61) Mus. of Art New Orleans $75 Heard Mus. Phoenix (8-61) - (3-62) $150 World's Fair Seattle (3-62) - (11-62) $200 U. of Waterloo Wat. (9-63) - (11-63) $180 NMC - 2nd Floor (4-67) C.C.C.I E9.2.74/c (7-76) - (2-80) Lent to Lowie Museum California (12-64) - (1-65?) Published ReferencesE. Gunther Northwest Coast Indian Art, World's Fair, Seattle 1962, pg. 79, text fig. 116.
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