Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected in 1940 by anthropologist Jean Basset Johnson (1911-1944); purchased by MAI from Jean Bassett Johnson in 1942.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Opata
- Artist/Maker
- Ramon Valenzuela, Opata
- Collector
- Jean Basset Johnson (Jean B. Johnson), Non-Indian, 1911-1944
- Seller
- Jean Basset Johnson (Jean B. Johnson), Non-Indian, 1911-1944
- Object Name
- Mask
- Media/Materials
- Wood
- Techniques
- Carved
- Object Type
- Masks and Masking
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