Audience Mask

NA5778

From: Alaska | Klukwan

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Title Audience Mask
Object Number NA5778
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tlingit
Provenience Alaska | Klukwan
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Locus Klukwan Gaanax.teidi Clan | Eye (Looking) House
Section American
Materials Wood | Pigment | Leather
Description

Carved and painted wooden mask called "Audience Mask" (Spirit of the Nass Mask). The face is painted green with black eyebrows and red, smiling lips. Paint is faded along raised surfaces like the chin, cheeks, nose, and forehead. A negative, toothed design seems to be present in the green paint on the forehead. Eyes are cut out, narrow, horizontal slits. Damaged below the left eye. Ears are roughly indicated and painted red with perforations where the leather head strap attaches. The proper right ear is damaged.

Height 22 cm
Width 22.5 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedtion to the Northwest Coast, Louis Shotridge, 1917

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