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Large wooden mask in the form of an eagle painted blue, red and white - Donald Ellis Gallery

Eagle Mask

Nuxalk
Northern British Columbia

ca. 1880

height: 10"
width: 19 ¼"

Inventory # N1863

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acquired by The Audain Art Museum, Whistler, BC


PROVENANCE

Collected by Dr. Walter Welty of Mercer Isl. in the 1950's, likely at Bella Coola
Mrs. Walter Welty, Mercer Isl., British Columbia
John McKillop, Seattle, Washington

RELATED EXAMPLE

National Museum of Man, Ottawa - See: Indian and Eskimo Art of Canada, Clark The Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1970, Cat. No. 74