Raven Mask (Hooyeh)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 2 Feb 1885
label: Collection Date
content: 1883
name: label: Collector
content: James G. Swan
label: Donor Name
content: James G. Swan
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Formerly belonged to Kitun, a "great chief". Painted; has moveable [movable] beak and eyes. Feather down encircles border. Excellent old mask. Loaned: Buenos Aires, March 25, 1954. Retd.: 1955. Exhibit Hall 9, 1987. Identified in exhibit label as Crest mask - the raven, collected from Gitkun, chief of the important village of Laskeek, or Tanu. Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, fig. 12f, pg. 250."
label: Notes
content: Raven mask appears in Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on artfact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=175 , retrieved 6-24-2012.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 May 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Laskeek (Tanu), Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii) / Louise Island, British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Haida
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 015690
label: USNM Number
content: E74750-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 35.5 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 25 cm