Hamsaml (Hamatsa) mask
date: label: Date created
content: circa 1910
name: label: Culture/People
content: Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
label: Artist/Maker
content: attributed to Mungo Martin, Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), 1879-1962; refurbished in 2005 by Kevin Cranmer, Namgis Kwakwaka'wakw (Nemquic)/Mamalilikulla Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), b. 1967 and Donna Cranmer (Nalaga), Namgis Kwakwaka'wakw (Nemquic)
label: Collector
content: Madge Hardin Walters, Non-Indian, 1870-1958
label: Seller
content: Madge Hardin Walters, Non-Indian, 1870-1958
notes: label: Collection History
content: Collected from a Native family in 1950 by Madge Hardin Walters (1870-1958, an avid collector of American Indian artifacts and an amateur ethnologist) during a trip to British Columbia; purchased by MAI from Madge Hardin Walters in 1950.
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: Vancouver Island; British Columbia; Canada
label: Archipelago
content: Vancouver Island Group
label: Island Name
content: Vancouver Island
setName: label: See related items
content: Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
label: See related items
content: Masks and Masking
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 21/6534
label: Barcode
content: 216534.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Masks and Masking
label: Indigenous Term
content: gwaxwaml
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Hamsaml (Hamatsa) mask
label: Media/Materials
content: Cedar, cedar bark, eagle feather/feathers (bald eagle), iron nails, twine/string, paint
label: Techniques
content: Carved, painted, twined
label: Dimensions
content: 117 x 25 x 32 cm