Mask headdress representing a lightning serpent
date: label: Date created
content: circa 1890
name: label: Culture/People
content: Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka)
label: MAI agent
content: George Gustav Heye (GGH), Non-Indian, 1874-1957
label: Seller
content: Arctic Studio
notes: label: Collection History
content: Collection history unknown; purchased by George Heye from Arctic Studio (a curio shop in Victoria, British Columbia) in 1938.
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: Clayoquot; Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District; British Columbia; Canada
label: Archipelago
content: Vancouver Island Group
label: Island Name
content: Vancouver Island
setName: label: See related items
content: Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka)
label: See related items
content: Clothing/Garments: Headwear and Headdresses
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 19/8962
label: Barcode
content: 198962.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Clothing/Garments: Headwear and Headdresses
label: Indigenous Term
content: haa-iitlik
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Mask headdress representing a lightning serpent
label: Media/Materials
content: Wood, cedar bark, paint
label: Techniques
content: Carved, painted
label: Dimensions
content: 71 x 19 x 25 cm