Object Details
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Sacred Circle Gallery of American Indian Art (Seattle, Washington) in 1984; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Makah
- Artist/Maker
- Greg Colfax, Makah, b. ca. 1947
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Sacred Circle Gallery of American Indian Art
- Date created
- 1984
- Title
- Pook-Ubs: Spirit of the Drowned Whaler
- Object Name
- Mask
- Media/Materials
- Wood, cedar bark, twine/string, feather/feathers
- Techniques
- Carved, painted
- Dimensions
- 114.3 x 35.6 x 22.9 cm
- Object Type
- Masks and Masking
