Dancing Mask For Chiefs
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Collector
content: James G. Swan
label: Donor Name
content: James G. Swan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "EXHIBIT HALL 9, 1987. IDENTIFIED IN EXHIBIT LABEL AS HUMAN-EAGLE MASK, COLLECTED AT THE VILLAGE OF BELLA-BELLA IN 1875. DANCING MASK REPRESENTING BIRD. ILLUS. IN BAE 3RD AR, PL. XVI, FIGS. 28-9, P. 176."
label: Notes
content: Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) of the delegation from Bella Bella, Bella Coola and Rivers Inlet communities of British Columbia made the following comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit May 20th - 24th, 2013. This mask is a humanoid, it's a human ancestor to be danced in the potlatch. The mask depicts human eyebrows and eye sockets, but instead of a nose and lips, it has a beak. It is carved out of alder wood.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Mar 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Bella Bella (Heiltsuk, Haíłzaqv)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004686
label: USNM Number
content: E20570-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask