About the Artwork
Mask
ca. 1900
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Native american
Aleut
Polychromed wood
Overall: 6 5/8 × 4 1/2 × 7/8 inches (16.8 × 11.4 × 2.2 cm)
Sculpture
Indigenous Americas
Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
70.465
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Provenance
Fred Harvey collection. James B. Ford
1917, given to the Museum of the American Indian (New York, New York, USA)
4 March 1946, exchanged with (Julius Carlebach, dealer, New York, New York, USA)
purchased by Robert Hudson Tannahill (1893-1969
Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)
1970-present, bequethed to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Aleut, Native American, Mask, ca. 1900, polychromed wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.465.
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