Dzunukwa Mask
Northern Vancouver Island, BC
ca. 1840-60
wood, paint, bear hide, cotton thread
height: 12 ¾"
Inventory # CN4307
Sold
acquired by The Audain Art Museum, Whistler, BC
PROVENANCE
Charles Ratton, Paris, France Adolf Hoffmeister, Prague Sotheby's, New York, November 30, 1999, lot 260 Ziff Family Collection, New York, NY
EXHIBITED
Ralph C. Altman Memorial Exhibition, The Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, 1968
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Temporary Loan, Cat. No. L.2015.31.5, May 2015 - September 2016
PUBLISHED
Andre Breton and Paul Eluard, ‘La Nuit Est Une Dimension’, in: Cahier d'Art, Paris "La Nuit Est Une Dimension", 1935, pg. 102
Forman, The Art of Four Continents, Prague, 1956
Forman, Exotic Art, London, 1956, pgs. 172 and 182
RELATED EXAMPLES
National Museum of Canada, Cat. No. VII-E-579 - See: Harner, Michael J. and Elsasser, Albert B. Art of the Northwest Coast. Berkeley: Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology, 1965, pg. 83, for a mask collected at Alert Bay in 1922
Milwaukee Public Museum, Cat. No. 17359 - See: Macnair, Peter, Joseph, Robert and Grenville, Bruce. Down From the Shimmering Sky: Masks of the Northwest Coast. Vancouver: Douglas & MacIntyre, 1998, pg. 149, pl. 123
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Cat. No. A6374 and A4034 - See: Hawthorn, Audrey. Art of The Kwakiutl Indians and Other Northwest Coast Tribes. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967, pg. 155, fig.147