Raven Mask (Hooyeh)
Item number E74750-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.
Item number E74750-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.
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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.
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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.
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