mask
- Museum number
- Am,+.252
- Description
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Mask carved in the form of a beaver, surface mostly painted blue, with fur detailed in black on the chin; lips and nostrils coloured red. The mask is made of alder wood, with skin straps attached below the ears.A metal plate fixed inside acts as repair to a split running longitudinally down the face.
- Dimensions
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Length: 23 centimetres
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Width: 21.50 centimetres
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Depth: 17.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Object was one of 10 pieces that featured in an episode of the BBC documentary series "Animal Behaviour", filmed in September 1981.
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Alica Leppanen, Adjunct Faculty, Native Northwest Coast Art, Whatcom Collegem, CAS 166, suggested this is Tlingit rather than Nuu-Chah-Naulth based on the stylistic traits described by Alicia.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1993-95, London, Museum of Mankind, 'Treasures of the Americas'
2003 15 Dec-2009 Jun, BM Room 24: Wellcome Trust Gallery, dc4, Living and Dying
- Acquisition date
- 1877
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am,+.252
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Am1877C2.252 (old CDMS no.)
