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Shaman's Maskette
Tlingit
Southeast Alaska
Southeast Alaska
ca. 1840-60
wood, paint
height: 3"
Inventory # CN4050
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Provenance
Collected by George T. Emmons at Tuxican Village, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, in 1904
Museum of Natural History, Heye Foundation, Cat. No. 2/9100, exchanged 1962
The Alan Reed Sawyer collection, Vancouver, British Columbia
Related Examples
Holm, Bill. Spirit and Ancestor: A Century of Northwest Coast Indian Art at the Burke Museum. Seattle: Burke Museum, 1987, pgs. 234-235, pl. 99
Wardwell, Allen. Tangible Visions: Northwest Coast Indian Shamanism and its Art. New York: The Monacelli Press, 1996, pg. 148, pl. 162, for a maskette collected by George T. Emmons at Klukwan, Alaska, before 1905