Object Details
- Culture/People
- Eastern Band of Cherokee
- Artist/Maker
- Allen Long, Eastern Band of Cherokee, 1917-1983
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual (Qualla Arts & Crafts Cooperative/Qualla Arts & Crafts Coop/Qualla Crafts), 1946-
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Qualla Arts and Crafts Cooperative (Cherokee, North Carolina) in 1965; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Date created
- 1964
- Catalog Number
- 25/5213
- Barcode
- 255213.000
- Object Type
- Masks and Masking
- Title
- Bear Hunter Mask
- Object Name
- Bear mask
- Media/Materials
- Buckeye wood, pigment/pigments
- Techniques
- Carved, painted, stained
- Dimensions
- 28 x 19 x 12 cm
- Place
- Big Cove, Eastern Cherokee Reservation, Qualla Boundary; Swain County; North Carolina; USA
- See related items
- Eastern Band of Cherokee
- Masks and Masking
- On View
- NMAI, Washington DC: Window on Collections, Animals
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_271078
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws65a924e01-6922-465f-bc4a-88ce57873655
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