Humanoid Mask Item Number: 25.0/312 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
This face mask represents a man wearing what appears to be a ceremonial head ring. The mask has been left the natural color of the wood except for a black band on the head ring, black eyebrows, and narrow black lines defining the eyes. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)
Item History
- Received from Mrs. Anne Gerber
What
Who
- Culture
- Nuu-chah-nulth
- Received from
- Mrs. Anne Gerber
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Sidney Gerber Collection, Gift of Anne Gerber
- Motif
- Human Face
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection