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FROM CARD: "54153-5. #54153 - LENGTH - 21" WIDTH 6-1/2" HEIGHT 7"."See Brown, Steven C., 2000, "Turning the Tables: The Influence of Nineteenth-Century Southern Design Styles on the Northern Northwest Coast," American Indian Art Magazine, 25(3): 48-55. In the discussion in the article on Field Museum of Natural History housefront model and totem pole model Cat. No. 264015, in footnote # 2 on p. 55, Brown speculates on the artist who made it. He notes: "The identity of the artist who created this housefront is not yet certain. Contemporary Nuu-chah-nulth artists have proposed three possibilities: Dr. Atleo or Sitakanim (both Tla'oquiaht [Clayoquot]) and Chel'tus (Ditidaht) (Black 1999:110). The writer's opinion leans toward Chel'tus, because masks more certainly attributed to Dr. Atleo or Sitakanim differ significantly in style from the former artist's apparent body of work." Brown goes on to list other artifacts he attributes to the same artist who created the Field Museum housefront model, including serpent mask # E54153 and humanoid face mask # E30210 as part of his work.

ILLUS. FIG. 64, P. 87, IN DOWN FROM THE SHIMMERING SKY BY PETER MACNAIR, VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, 1998. IDENTIFIED THERE BY PETER MACNAIR AS MASK REPRESENTING MALE ANCESTOR.Illus. Fig. 18, p. 29 in King, J. C. H. 1979. Portrait masks from the Northwest Coast of America. [New York]: Thames and Hudson. Identified there (p. 28) as "Haida mask of a man. ... this was originally decorated with fur to represent a moustache and beard; the unusual feature is the combination of traditional formline designs with entirely abstract markings around the left eye. Unlike most early nineteenth-century Haida human face masks, this was evidently made for use; at some stage - perhaps before it was collected - it split open and was pinned together again. c. 1800-50."

FROM CARD: "LIKE A MUMMIED HEAD. ILLUS. IN J. SWAN, INDIANS OF CAPE FLATTERY, SMITHSONIAN INST., 1869; FIG. 36, P. 69. EXHIBIT HALL 9, 1987. IDENTIFIED IN EXHIBIT LABEL AS PUKMIS, MAKAH."

FROM CARD: "68014-7. IN SHAMAN'S BOX [# E68018]." Note re photo: Neg. #2000-6853 is a photo of 68011, 68014, 68015, 68016, and 68017. 68015 is in upper left of image.

CEDAR MASK CARVED IN SHAPE OF A BIRD, WITH DOWN ATTACHED TO BEAK AND TOP OF FACE. BEAK IS A SEPARATELY CARVED PIECE AND PAINTED RED AT THE OPENING & AT THE TOP. PUBLICATION: BAE 3RD ANNUAL REPORT, PP. 119 - 120 & PL. XVII, FIG. 36 & 37, P. 179. "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," BY VIOLA & MARGOLIS, ILLUSTRATED P. 141. THIS MASK WAS EXHIBITED AT VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, CANADA, IN 1967. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.FROM CARD: "CEDAR WOOD, REPRESENTING AN OWL (?), TRIMMED WITH DOWN. ILLUS. BAE 3RD ANNUAL REPORT, PL. XVII, FIG. 36-7, P. 179. 4-17-67 LOAN DATA: 19 HOLES ON REVERSE, FEATHER DOWN ON FOREHEAD AND CHIN, VERY FRAGILE; BEAK LOOSE. LOANED TO VANCOUVER ART GALL. 4-18-67. RETURNED TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY DEPT. 12-13-67." Caption and description in BAE 3rd Annual Report, p. 179 and 119, identify this mask as representing eagle or thunderbird.Provenience note, in 1841 Oregon Territory encompassed the land from Russian Alaska to Spanish California and from the Pacific to the Continental Divide. The U.S. Exploring Expedition did not go to Canada, but did reach Oregon Territory in 1841, and carried out a hydrographic survey of the Columbia River from its mouth to the Cascades, as well as doing some surveying inland.They had dealings with Hudson's Bay Company staff during that time, and it is probable that the HBC is the source of a number of the Northwest Coast artifacts collected by the expedition.

Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.