Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected between 1965 and 1966 by Nicole H. Maxwell (1905-1998, a pioneering researcher of traditional South American Native medicine and ethnobotany from the 1940s through the 1980s); purchased by MAI from Nicole H. Maxwell in 1967.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Ticuna (Tucuna)
- Collector
- Nicole H. Maxwell, Non-Indian, 1905-1998
- Previous owner
- Nicole H. Maxwell, Non-Indian, 1905-1998
- Seller
- Nicole H. Maxwell, Non-Indian, 1905-1998
- Object Name
- Mask
- Media/Materials
- Wood, bark cloth
- Techniques
- Carved, painted
- Object Type
- Ceremonial/Ritual items
