Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Sep 1887
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Franz Boas
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Franz Boas
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Raven." Formerly on exhibit in NHB Exhibit Hall 9, case 33, where it was identified as a human-raven mask.
label: Notes
content: Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) and Jennifer Kramer (anthropologist) 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. Having an ear on a bird was common, the masks represents a transformed human or humanoid bird. This one has human eyebrows and a human forehead.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Bella Coola (Nuxalk)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 019597
label: USNM Number
content: E129510-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask