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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