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A KWAKIUTL POLYCHROME WOOD FOREHEAD MASK
carved in two sections with red, black and white paint, representing a raven with pointed oval eyes and long, tapering beak with pierced nostrils and formline design, red cedar bark twisted along the back edge and attached to crown, cotton cloth and string attached at back
Length: 25 in. (63.5 cm.)
carved in two sections with red, black and white paint, representing a raven with pointed oval eyes and long, tapering beak with pierced nostrils and formline design, red cedar bark twisted along the back edge and attached to crown, cotton cloth and string attached at back
Length: 25 in. (63.5 cm.)
Provenance
Collected by Dr. Samuel Atkin, former President of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and Society, on a trip to British Columbia in 1963.