Mask, Sparrow Hawk
date: label: Accession Date
content: 2 Feb 1885
name: label: Collector
content: James G. Swan
label: Donor Name
content: James G. Swan
notes: label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Has movable parts.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on artfact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=613 , retrieved 6-24-2012: Mask Pulling the strings on this Sparrow Hawk mask makes the eyes move, the beak open, and the tongue rise and fall. Haida dance masks were worn during winter "secret society" ceremonies for the acquisition of supernatural power, and often represented ravens, hawks, puffins, oystercatchers, and other birds. The mask is brightened with strips of copper.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), 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: E74751-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 46 cm