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Blackened mask with hide strips marking eyebrows and beard - Donald Ellis Gallery
Blackened face mask with red open mouth, nose and eyes - Donald Ellis Gallery
Profile of a rare blackened mask with hide strips indicating eyebrows and beard - Donald Ellis Gallery

Face Mask

Tsimshian
Northern British Columbia

19th century

wood, paint, hide

height: 9 ⅝"

Inventory # CN4361

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acquired by The Audain Art Museum, Whistler, BC


PROVENANCE

Collected by Lieutenant G.T. Emmons (1852-1945) at Kincolith, Nass  River, British Columbia, in 1907
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York, 1/4218
Robert L. Stolper, Stolper Galleries of Primitive Arts, New York
Leonard Lasser Collection, Windsor, Connecticut
The Wellman Collection
Sotheby’s New York, June 4, 1997, lot 228
George Shaw, Aspen, Colorado
William and Ann Ziff collection, New York, NY
Christie’s Paris, October 30, 2019, lot 40

PUBLISHED

Mirski, B. Art of the Northwest Coast Indian from the Lasser Collection. Boston: 1972, pgs. 21-22