Dzunukwa Mask
Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia
late 19th century
wood, paint, human hair
height: 19"
Inventory # CN4534
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PROVENANCE
Christie's, New York, June 8, 1995, lot 14
EXHIBITED
Formerly on long-term loan to the de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
RELATED EXAMPLES
For a mask collected at Alert Bay in 1922 see:
National Museum of Canada, Cat. No. VII-E-579 - See: Michael J. Harner and Albert B. Elsasser, Art of the Northwest Coast, Berkeley: Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology, 1965, pg. 83
Milwaukee Public Museum, Cat. No. 17359 - See: Peter Macnair, Robert Joseph, and Bruce Grenville, Down From the Shimmering Sky: Masks of the Northwest Coast, Vancouver: Douglas & MacIntyre, 1998, pg. 149, pl. 123
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Cat. No. A6374 and A4034 - See: Audrey Hawthorn, Art of The Kwakiutl Indians and Other Northwest Coast Tribes, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967, pg. 155, fig.147
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO. (Ex. Collection Estelle and Morton Sosland), Cat. No. 2009.41.1 – See: Ralph T. Coe, Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art, Kansas City: Nelson Gallery of Art, 1977, pg. 134, pl. 253