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Mask with large open eyes inlaid with abalone shell and beard made of hide strips - Donald Ellis Gallery

Mask

Tlingit
Southeast Alaska

ca. 1840

wood, paint, hide, glass, metal nails

height: 9 ⅜"

Inventory # CN3875

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acquired by The Audain Art Museum, Whistler, BC


PUBLISHED

Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2012, pl. 53

RELATED EXAMPLE

Wardwell, Allen. Tangible Visions: Northwest Coast Indian Shamanism and its Art. New York: The Monacelli Press, 1996, pg. 108. no. 84, for a mask likely by the same artist, now in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL

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