id:			134032
accession number:	1956.547
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.547
updated:		2023-03-09 12:48:04.288000

Mask: Eagle, 1800s. Native North America, Northwest Coast, British Columbia, Nuxalk (Bella Coola). Wood, pigment, restored eye inlays; overall: 35.6 x 45.8 x 24.2 cm (14 x 18 1/16 x 9 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Harold T. Clark Educational Extension Fund 1956.547

title:				Mask: Eagle
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creation date:			1800s
creation date earliest:		1800
creation date latest:		1900
current location:		231 Native North American
creditline:			The Harold T. Clark Educational Extension Fund
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culture:	Native North America, Northwest Coast, British Columbia, Nuxalk (Bella Coola)
technique:	wood, pigment, restored eye inlays
department:	Art of the Americas
collection:	AA - Native North America
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 35.6 x 45.8 x 24.2 cm (14 x 18 1/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
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Across the Northwest Coast, native people engaged in renewal rites during the winter ceremonial season. This mask, with a beak that opens and head panels that move, may have been used during such celebrations. In 1998, Robert Joseph, a Northwest Coast chief, recalled that when he donned dance masks like this one as a youth, "all the world is somewhere else . . . I am the mask . . . the bird . . . the animal . . . the spirit. I transcend into the being of the mask."
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