Mask Item Number: 25.0/321 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
This small mask, probably representing the Dzoonokwa, is a sort made for sale to tourists and collectors. Small mask-like ornaments were made for ceremonial use and attached to masks, neck rings, and headdresses, but they are ususally exhibit signs of use or have holes for ties drilled in the edges. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)
Item History
- Received from Mrs. Anne Gerber
What
Who
- Culture
- Northwest Coast
- Received from
- Mrs. Anne Gerber
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Sidney Gerber Collection, Gift of Anne Gerber
- Motif
- Face | Human
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection