Object Details
- Collection History
- Probably collected by Charles F. Newcombe (1851-1924, a physician and collector in British Columbia); purchased in 1900 by Stewart Culin (1858-1929, later of the Brooklyn Museum) for the Free Museum of Art and Science; acquired by George Heye through an exchange with the Free Museum of Science and Art in 1908.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
- Collector
- Charles F. Newcombe (C.F. Newcombe), Non-Indian, 1851-1924
- Previous owner
- Free Museum of Science and Art (University of Pennsylvania Museum) (University Museum, University of Pennsylvania)
- Date created
- 1880-1900
- Object Name
- Mask
- Media/Materials
- Wood
- Techniques
- Carved, painted
- Object Type
- Masks and Masking
