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Frontal view of painted mask depicting sea otter man carved from wood | Donald Ellis Gallery
Profile view of a carved and painted wooden potlatch mask of sea otter man | Donald Ellis Gallery
Side view of an expressively carved dance mask representing sea otter man | Donald Ellis Gallery

Land Otter Man Mask

Tlingit
Southeast Alaska

ca. 1840-60

wood, paint

height: 10"

Inventory # N4506

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PROVENANCE

Ralph C. Altman, Los Angeles, CA, acquired before 1950
Sotheby's New York, May 23, 2008, lot 15 (sold for $277,000)
James Economos Santa Fe, NM
Ziff Family Collection, New York, NY

PUBLISHED

Robert Bruce Inverarity, Art of the Northwest Coast Indians, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1950, pl. no. 72
Franklin Murphy and Jay Frierman, Ralph C. Altman Memorial Exhibition, Los Angeles: White Lotus Press, 1968, p. 23 

EXHIBITED 

Ralph C. Altman Memorial Exhibition, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, April 8 - June 30, 1968

RELATED EXAMPLE

Allen Wardwell, Tangible Visions: Northwest Coast Indian Shamanism and Its Art, New York: Monacelli Press, 1996, pp. 142-147