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Frontal view of Kwakwaka'wakw sun mask vividly painted in red, blue and green - Donald Ellis Gallery
Profile view of sun mask with recurved beak and widely opened eyes - Donald Ellis Gallery

Sun Mask

Kwakwaka'wakw
Northern Vancouver Island

ca. 1870

wood, paint

height: 13 ½"

Inventory # CN3338

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Provenance

Collected by the anthropologist Edward Malin from John Hunt at Fort Rupert, BC

PUBLISHED

Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2006, pgs. 38-39

RELATED EXAMPLES

Davis, Robert Tyler, Native Arts of the Pacific Northwest, Stanford University Press, 1949, pl. 86
Feder, Norman, American Indian Art (shorter edition), New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1973, pl. 132

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