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Portrait Mask
Tsimshian
Northern British Columbia
Northern British Columbia
ca. 1820-40
wood, paint, hair
height: 7 ½"
Inventory # CN3207
Sold
acquired by the Thomson Collection now at the Art Gallery of Ontario
PROVENANCE
Private collection, United Kingdom
Sotheby’s, New York, June 24, 2004, lot 27
PUBLISHED
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2006, pg. 9
RELATED EXAMPLES
Tom Hill and Richard W. Hill Sr., Creation’s Journey: Native American Identity and Belief, Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994
Canadian Museum of Civilization, No. VII-B-10 - See: Peter Macnair, Robert Joseph and Bruce Grenville, Down From The Shimmering Sky: Masks of the Northwest Coast, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998, pl. 150
Bill Holm and Bill Reid, Indian Art of the Northwest Coast: A Dialogue on Craftsmanship and Aesthetics, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1975, pl. 91