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Wolf Mask
Tsimshian
Northern Northwest Coast
Northern Northwest Coast
ca. 1840
wood, hide, human hair, sinew cedar bark, paint
width: 11"
Inventory # CN3741
Sold
acquired by The Audain Art Museum, Whistler, BC
PROVENANCE
Collected at Kitwancool, British Columbia, from a noble Tsimshian family
Howard Roloff, Duncan, BC
PUBLISHED
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2006, pg. 3
RELATED EXAMPLES
American Museum of Natural History, No. 16/8200 - See: Down From The Shimmering Sky: Masks of the Northwest Coast, Macnair, Peter, Joseph, Robert, Grenville, Bruce. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998, pg. 47, pl. 24
Museum fur Volkerkunde, Berlin, Nos. IVA 1258 and IVB 178 - See: Donnervogel und Raubwal: Die indianische Kunst der Nordwestkuste Norkamerikas. Haberland, Wolfgang. Hamburg: Hamburgisches Museum fur Volkerkunde und Christians Verlag, 1979, pgs. 118 and 202, pls.E-3 and J-4
British Museum, No. NWC 71 – See: Art of the Northwest Coast Indians. Iverarity, Robert B. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1950, pl. 102