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Gwaxwgwakwalanuksiwe' (man-eating raven) hamatsa mask

PU 5158

Information

Object Number
PU 5158
Medium
Red cedar and bark, string, black, red, and white paint
Dates

ca. 1900

Dimensions
ca. h. 9.0 cm., ca. w. 70.0 cm., d. 9.5 cm. (3 9/16 x 27 9/16 x 3 3/4 in.)
Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Credit Line
Lent by the Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
Place Made

North America, Tsax̱is

Place Collected

North America, Canada, British Columbia, Fort Rupert, Vancouver Island

Materials
wood, pigment

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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2879015

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 1962
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/246779706

Erna 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 1963
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/249653100

James E. Nicholson. <em>Images of New World Natives</em>. (Brunswick, Maine, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1974). , p. 18

1267 1974
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26319594

Helen 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 1986
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881575741

Allen 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