Mask

38527

From: Canada | Ontario | Grand River

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 38527
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Iroquois
Provenience Canada | Ontario | Grand River
Culture Area Northeast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Wood | Brass | Horsehair | Pigment
Technique Painted
Description

"Wood, with brass eyes. Wrinkled forehead, twisted mouth, pointed chin. Horsehair hair. Painted red with black eyebrows and mouth." (catalogue card); Handwritten on card - "Crooked-mouth Mask" representing "the Great One" (Fenton - A.F.E)

Length 33 cm
Width 18 cm
Credit Line Pan-American Exposition; Wanamaker Expedition / R. Stewart Culin, 1901

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