Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1841
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. William Henry (?) McNeal (McNeill?)
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: CARVED WOODEN MASK OF A HUMAN FACE WITH A METAL RING THROUGH THE SEPTUM AND A NAIL PROTRUDING THROUGH THE LOWER LIP. THE HAIR & EYEBROWS ARE PAINTED BLACK, & THERE IS A BLACK BORDER AROUND THE CHIN. THERE ARE ALSO SOME RED LINES ACROSS THE NOSE AND BROW. MARKS: "THE WOMEN OF A TRIBE NEAR FORT SIMPSON ON THE NW COAST OF AMERICA; LAT. 54°, 30." COLLECTOR CAPTAIN MCNEAL, HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY. PUBLICATION: "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," BY VIOLA & MARGOLIS, 1985, ILLUS. P. 141. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURALHISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS,"1987-89.
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: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "INSCRIBED ON THE FRONT "THE WOMEN OF A TRIBE NEAR FORT SIMPSON ON THE NW COAST OF AMERICA; LAT. 54° 30"."
label: Notes
content: ILLUS. FIG. 33, P.59, DISCUSSED P. 58, IN DOWN FROM THE SHIMMERING SKY BY PETER MACNAIR, VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, 1998. IDENTIFIED THERE BY PETER MACNAIR AS MASK REPRESENTING YOUNG WOMAN WITH NOSE RING, KAIGANI HAIDA.
label: Notes
content: "Captain McNeal" of the Hudson's Bay Company may refer to William Henry McNeill, who did meet Wilkes/the U.S. Exploring Expedition in 1841. At the time of the expedition McNeill was Captain of the Hudson's Bay Company vessel S.S. Beaver, the first steamship on the Pacific coast.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Dec 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Simpson (Near), British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Haida, Kaigani (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2667-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Width - Object
content: 20 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 23 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 10 cm