Lax'keit (human face mask)

ca. 1850

Native American

Tlingit

Sitka

Alder wood, paint, and hide

8 3/4 x 8 x 4 1/2 in. (22.23 x 20.32 x 11.43 cm)

Gift of John H. Hauberg

91.1.118

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryVancouver, BC, Vancouver Art Gallery, Down from the Shimmering Sky: Masks of the Northwest Coast, June 4, 1998 - May 15, 2000

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, The Box of Daylight, September 15, 1983 - January 8, 1984

Published ReferencesThe Spirit Within: Northwest Coast Native Art from the John H. Hauberg Collection, Seattle Art Museum, 1995, pg. 56

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