Dancing Mask Eagle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Sep 1900
name: label: Donor Name
content: Iver Fougner
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Large elaborately carved mask representing the eagle. Lower mandible hinged [movable] and supplied with cords for moving it. Crest of feathers and shredded cedar bark above. Painted in red, black, and blue. Loan: Museo Nacional de Antropologia May 18, 1964, returned summer of 1983."
label: Notes
content: Ian Reid (Heiltsuk), Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk) 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. The inside of the mask is cedar bark. The group discussed the accuracy of the accession/catalog record. There could have been a possible translation/transcription error; probably originally meant to be 'dancing' mask, not 'davenig' mask. [This error seems to have been fixed]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Bella Coola (Nuxalk)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 037021
label: USNM Number
content: E206544-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask