Object Details
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the artist in 1982; 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
- Seneca
- Artist/Maker
- George Longfish (George C. Longfish), Seneca/Tuscarora, b. 1942
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- George Longfish (George C. Longfish), Seneca/Tuscarora, b. 1942
- Date created
- 1981
- Title
- Big Fish's Baby Mask
- Object Name
- Mask
- Media/Materials
- Hide, glass bead/beads, plastic bead/beads, metal cones, abalone/haliotis shell, plastic, wood, commercial rubber, cotton cloth, yarn
- Techniques
- Stitched, overlay beadwork, knitted
- Dimensions
- 28 x 31 x 72.1 cm
- Object Type
- Works of Art (Other)
