bird;carving;northwest coast american;carving
- From The Collection Of
- Norfolk Museums
- Accession Number
- GRYEH : 2003.34
- Discipline
- Humanities
- Place
- Canada (creation)
- Description
- Wooden carving, anthropomorphic human / bird face. dark brown in colour perhaps a wooden frontlet; said to be Northwest Coast First Nations. Northwest Coast British Columbia, Kwakiutl] Kwakwaka'waku /Tlingit(?); wood peg through upper jaw for manipulation of lower jaw which is now missing; holes for suspension of lower jaw at back; a frontlet is a carved wooden crest of a clan; traces of green paint (?) can be discerned.;Non-Haida. Possibly Kwakwaka’waku.Young, SeanHaida Gwaii Museum22.1.2021
- See Elsewhere
- MDS record link
- Record Rights
- Norfolk Museums
- CC BY-NC
Creation Place
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