Mask. Used At Dances.
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1862
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. George Gibbs
label: Donor Name
content: Capt. George Gibbs
notes: label: Notes
content: IDENTIFIED BY PETER MACDONALD, GUEST CURATOR OF THE "DOWN FROM THE SHIMMERING SKY" EXHIBITION, VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, 1998, AS "ARCHAIC HEILTSUK". BASED ON THIS IDENTIFICATION, WILLIAM STURTEVANT, CURATOR OF NORTH AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, DECIDED TO UPDATE THE PERMANENT COMPUTER RECORD AND STORE THE OBJECT AS "BELLA BELLA". IDENTIFIED AS MASK REPRESENTING MALE ANCESTOR, C. 1845, BELLA BELLA, ON P. 189 IN DOWN FROM THE SHIMMERING SKY BY PETER MACNAIR, VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, 1998.
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 was specifically a dance mask, there's a spruce root bite place. It is made of alder and spruce.
label: Notes
content: For more information, see pdf of additional documentation on the Gibbs collections provided by Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa which is filed with the Emu accession/transaction record.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Jul 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northwest Coast, Canada (not certain), 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: 000051
label: USNM Number
content: E688-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 23.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 19.1 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 11.4 cm