M0017706: Wooden mask with movable jaw and eyes

Previous title, replaced October 2020: mask.N.W. Indian, wood, painted. Poss. Kwakiutl

Photograph of the side view of a carved wooden mask painted in various colours, with movable jaw and eyes. According to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum accession card it is very similar to another mask identified in an external publication as coming from the Tshimshian people of the Pacific Northwest Coast. It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medcial Musuem at an unknown point and given accession number A300370. Related images: M0017706EA

January 1960

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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