Currently not on view
Portrait mask,
ca. 1840-60
Haida
PU 3924
Information
Title
Portrait mask
Dates
ca. 1840-60
Medium
Wood with red and black pigment
Dimensions
h. 23.0 cm., w. 16.8 cm., d. 10.5 cm. (9 1/16 x 6 5/8 x 4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Lent by the Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
Object Number
PU 3924
Place Collected
North America
Culture
Techniques
Subject
Collected by Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson, in or after 1877; Given to Princeton Theological Seminary, 1879-1882; Given to E. M. Museum (Princeton Museum of Natural History), 1882
- Henry B. Collins, et al., The Far North: 2000 Years of American Eskimo and Indian Art (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1973)., cat. no. 339, p. 262 (illus.)
- Susan Bloom, Masked rituals, (New York, The Queens Museum, 1977)., cat. no. 22; p. 20 (illus.)
- Patricia Garrett, ed. The Guardians: The Native American Artists (Summit, NJ: Summit Art Center, 1980)., cat. no. 82, p. 12 (illus.), 29
- Helen H. Marr, Voices of the Ancestors: Music in the Life of the Northwest Coast Indians (Greenwich, CT: Bruce Museum, 1986)., p. 21
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 313 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 365
