2012
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early 19th century
wood, paint, cloth, hair, spruce gum
height: 19"
Inventory # N3861
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acquired by the Thomson Collection now at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Collected in Puget Sound, WA, by Captian William Martain, in 1828
Woburn Public Library, Woburn, MA (1923)
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2012, pl. 13
For 3 figures by the same artist see: Grimes, John, Feest, Christian, and Curran, Mary Lou. Uncommon Legacies: Native American Art From the Peabody Essex Museum. New York: American Federation of the Arts, 2002, pgs. 134-135, pl. 48
Holm, Bill and Vaughan, Thomas. Soft Gold: The Fur Trade and Cultural Exchange on The Northwest Coast of America. Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1982, pgs. 160-161, pls. 135 and 136
For a group of masks by the same artist see: Grimes, ibid., 2002, pgs. 150-151, pl. 58
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