Bird Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1841
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: CEDAR MASK CARVED IN SHAPE OF A BIRD, WITH DOWN ATTACHED TO BEAK AND TOP OF FACE. BEAK IS A SEPARATELY CARVED PIECE AND PAINTED RED AT THE OPENING & AT THE TOP. PUBLICATION: BAE 3RD ANNUAL REPORT, PP. 119 - 120 & PL. XVII, FIG. 36 & 37, P. 179. "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," BY VIOLA & MARGOLIS, ILLUSTRATED P. 141. THIS MASK WAS EXHIBITED AT VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, CANADA, IN 1967. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CEDAR WOOD, REPRESENTING AN OWL (?), TRIMMED WITH DOWN. ILLUS. BAE 3RD ANNUAL REPORT, PL. XVII, FIG. 36-7, P. 179. 4-17-67 LOAN DATA: 19 HOLES ON REVERSE, FEATHER DOWN ON FOREHEAD AND CHIN, VERY FRAGILE; BEAK LOOSE. LOANED TO VANCOUVER ART GALL. 4-18-67. RETURNED TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY DEPT. 12-13-67." Caption and description in BAE 3rd Annual Report, p. 179 and 119, identify this mask as representing eagle or thunderbird.
label: Notes
content: Provenience note, in 1841 Oregon Territory encompassed the land from Russian Alaska to Spanish California and from the Pacific to the Continental Divide. The U.S. Exploring Expedition did not go to Canada, but did reach Oregon Territory in 1841, and carried out a hydrographic survey of the Columbia River from its mouth to the Cascades, as well as doing some surveying inland.They had dealings with Hudson's Bay Company staff during that time, and it is probable that the HBC is the source of a number of the Northwest Coast artifacts collected by the expedition.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northwest Coast, British Columbia (not certain), United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2661-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Width - Top
content: 29 cm
label: Unknown - Top
content: 18 cm
label: Height - Bottom
content: 29 cm
label: Diameter - Bottom
content: 8 cm