Dancing Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Sep 1900
name: label: Donor Name
content: Iver Fougner
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Carved from wood in shape of a face; painted in red, blue, and black. Exhibit Hall 9, 1987. Identified in exhibit label as Bella Coola mask."
label: Notes
content: Ian Reid (Heiltsuk), Evelyn Windsor (Heiltsuk elder) and Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk) of the delegation from Bella Bella, Bella Coola and Rivers Inlet communities of British Columbia made the following comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit May 20th - 24th, 2013. The mask was probably wrapped and decorated with cedar bark. The mask is very heavy and appears to be alder wood. The group speculated as to whether the mask represents the sun or moon.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Bella Coola (Nuxalk)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 037021
label: USNM Number
content: E206543-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask