Wooden Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 2 Feb 1876
name: label: Donor Name
content: H. S. Kirby
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. ON PLATE IX (P. 163), BAE ANN. REPT. FOR 1882. DALL (P. 101) ATTRIBUTES IT "NEAR LEVUKA, FRIENDLY ISLANDS" (PROPERLY LIFUKA, TONGA). HOWEVER BUCK (ARTS AND CRAFTS OF COOK IS., BISHOP MUS. BULL 179, P. 506) ASSERTS NO MASKS EXISTED IN TONGA. THIS MASK APPEARS RATHER TO HAVE NORTHWEST PACIFIC COAST AFFINITIES.--RIESENBERG, 5/5/59. 5/31/59 A LETTER AND PHOTO TO ROBERT B. INVERARITY, WAS ANSWERED SAYING THAT HE WAS SURE THAT IT WAS FROM THE KWAKIUTL, AND SIMILAR SPECIMEN ONCE IN HEYE MUS., N.Y.C. THE WOOD HAS BEEN DEFINITELY IDENTIFIED BY WM. WATKINS AS SPRUCE, POSSIBLY SITKA VARIETY. LOANED TO THE S.I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75. LOAN RETURNED MAR 22 1990."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004838
label: USNM Number
content: E25651-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask