Object Details
- Culture/People
- Eastern Band of Cherokee
- Artist/Maker
- William Lossiah, Eastern Band of Cherokee, b. 1937
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- DOI Indian Craft Shop (Department of the Interior Indian Craft Shop)
- Previous seller
- 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 Department of the Interior Indian Craft Shop (Washington, DC) in 1985; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement
- Date created
- 1983
- Catalog Number
- 25/5876
- Barcode
- 255876.000
- Object Type
- Masks and Masking
- Object Name
- Buffalo mask
- Media/Materials
- Wood, paint, imitation/faux fur, commercially tanned leather
- Techniques
- Carved, painted, stitched
- Dimensions
- 36.5 x 28.9 x 31 cm
- Place
- Swimmer Branch; Eastern Cherokee Reservation, Qualla Boundary; Jackson 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_271742
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws67bd4688b-293a-4926-b6e3-0ddba9076105
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