Niijaang.u (portrait mask)

Photo: Paul Macapia

Niijaang.u (portrait mask)

ca. 1840

Red cedar, copper, leather, paint, nails, human hair, seal skin
10 x 7 1/2 x 4 in. (25.4 x 19.05 x 10.16 cm)
Gift of John H. Hauberg
91.1.38
Provenance: Micheal R. Johnson, Seattle, Washington, until 1971; John H. Hauberg, Seattle, Washington, 1971-1991; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Photo: Paul Macapia
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Collects Northwest Coast Native Art, February 12, - May 17, 2015

London, England, Kansas City, Missouri, Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art, 1976-77
Published ReferencesThe Spirit Within: Northwest Coast Native Art from the John H. Hauberg Collection, Seattle Art Museum, 1995, pg. 104

Coe, Ralph T., Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1977, no. 273, p. 137, illus.

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