Mask, Sun

American Museum of Natural History

16/1507

NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN. MURDOCH, DAVID, 1995, Publisher: EYEWITNESS BOOKS - ALFRED A. KNOPF DOWN FROM THE SHIMMERING SKY: MASKS OF THE NORTHWEST COAST. MACNAIR, PETER, JOSEPH, AND GRENVILLE EXHIBITION CATALOG, 1990, Publisher: THE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY FROM THE LAND OF THE TOTEM POLES. JONAITIS, ALDONA, 1988 AMERICA'S FASCINATING INDIAN HERITAGE. MAXWELL, JAMES, EDITOR, 1978, Publisher: READER'S DIGEST

  • Exhibitions

    DOWN FROM THE SHIMMERING SKY (VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, VANCOUVER, CANADA, 1997)


  • Type of Item mask
  • Culture Nuxalk
  • Material wood, pigment, plant fibre, metal
  • Measurements diameter 63.0 cm (overall)

  • Field Collector George Hunt, Franz Boas
  • Received from Morris K. Jesup

  • Made in British Columbia


  • Subject SUN