Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Sep 1902
label: Collection Date
content: 1902
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. George T. Emmons
label: Donor Name
content: Lt. George T. Emmons
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MASK PROCURED FROM A HAIDA INDIAN ON THE SKEENA RIVER AND SAID TO BE TLINGIT (IF SO FROM THE TONGASS TRIBE BUT BELIEVED BY EMMONS TO BE HAIDA OR TSIMPSHEAN.) IF IT BE A TLINGIT MASK, AS WAS ALLEGED BY THE COLLECTOR, IT REPRESENTS THE SPIRIT OF THE WATER, IUAGUES LIVING UNDER THE SALT WATER. BELLA BELLA - BILL HOLM 3/1983. EXHIBIT HALL 9, 1987. IDENTIFIED IN EXHIBIT LABEL AS BUKWUS, BELLA BELLA. LOAN: R.H. LOWIE MUSEUM 12/31/1964, LOAN RETURNED FEB. 15 1966." FROM G.T. EMMONS LIST IN ACCESSION FILE: "THIS MASK WAS BROUGHT IN BY A HAIDA LIVING ON THE SKEENA RIVER AND WAS SAID BY HIM TO BE A TLINGIT MASK, WHICH REPRESENTED A SPIRIT OF THE WATER QUAGUES, WHICH LIVES UNDER THE SALT WATER. THE NOSE WOULD INDICATE IT TO BE AN EAGLE. IF IT IS A TLINGIT MASK IT MUST HAVE COME FROM THE TONGASS TRIBE BUT I BELIEVE IT IS EITHER A TSIMPSHEAN OR HAIDA MASK."
label: Notes
content: Emmons indicates in letters dated May 27 and May 28, 1902, sent from Victoria, B.C., and filed in the accession file, that the masks in accession 39904 were purchased by him on those dates.
label: Notes
content: Karen Anderson (Nuxalk 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 is made of alder. The group questions the Tlingit attribution and thinks it could be from Bella Bella and/or a Nuxalk mask. Some of the group members believe it could depict a bear.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Aug 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Skeena River, British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit (?)
label: Culture
content: Bella Bella (Heiltsuk, Haíłzaqv) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 039904
label: USNM Number
content: E217408-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask