Land Otter Man Mask
Southeast Alaska
ca. 1840-60
wood, paint
height: 10"
Inventory # N4506
Sold
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