Currently not on view
Gwaxwgwakwalanuksiwe' (man-eating raven) hamatsa mask
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ca. 1900
North America, Tsax̱is
North America, Canada, British Columbia, Fort Rupert, Vancouver Island
Collected by Lt. George Thornton Emmons; Given to E. M. Museum (Princeton Museum of Natural History) in exchange, 1894-1903. Card records 1964 label that indicates "from Capt. Emmons" indicating may have been collected by G.F. Emmons, but clearly a mistake given date of his death (1884) and final rank of Rear Admiral.
Erna Gunther, <em>Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Exhibit at Seattle's World Fair Fine Arts Pavilion, April 21-October 21</em> (Seattle: Century 21 Exposition, 1962)., cat. no. 16, p. 16 (illus.)
1220 1962Erna Gunther, "West Coast Indian Art Goes to the Fair," <em>The Beaver: A Magazine of the North</em> (Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay Co., Spring 1963): 4-13., p. 4–13, p. 8 (illus.)
1265 1963James E. Nicholson. <em>Images of New World Natives</em>. (Brunswick, Maine, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1974). , p. 18
1267 1974Helen H. Marr, <em>Voices of the Ancestors: Music in the Life of the Northwest Coast Indians</em> (Greenwich, CT: Bruce Museum, 1986)., p. 21
1225 1986Allen Wardwell, et al. "Princeton's Collections of Northwest Coast Indian Art," <em>American Indian Art Magazine</em>, vol. 22, no. 2 (Spring 1997): 34-43., fig. 8, p. 40 (illus.)
1332 1997
