Raven Mask (Hooyeh) Item Number: E74750-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From card: "Formerly belonged to Kitun, a "great chief". Painted; has moveable [movable] beak and eyes. Feather down encircles border. Excellent old mask. Loaned: Buenos Aires, March 25, 1954. Retd.: 1955. Exhibit Hall 9, 1987. Identified in exhibit label as Crest mask - the raven, collected from Gitkun, chief of the important village of Laskeek, or Tanu. Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, fig. 12f, pg. 250."Raven mask appears in Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on artfact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=175 , retrieved 6-24-2012.
Item History
- Made in Tanu, Laskeek Bay, British Columbia, Canada
- Collected by James G. Swan in Tanu, Laskeek Bay, British Columbia, Canada during 1883
- Received on February 2, 1885
What
- Name
- Raven Mask (Hooyeh)
- Identification Number
- E74750-0
- Type of Item
- mask
Who
- Culture
- Haida
- Field Collector
- James G. Swan
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Tanu, Laskeek Bay, British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in
- Tanu, Laskeek Bay, British Columbia, Canada
When
- Collection Date
- during 1883
- Acquisition Date
- on February 2, 1885
Other
- Accession Number
- 015690