About the Artwork
Mask
ca. 1900
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Native american
Eskimo
Polychromed wood
Overall: 6 × 4 3/8 × 1 1/8 inches (15.2 × 11.1 × 2.9 cm)
Sculpture
Indigenous Americas
Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
70.466
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Provenance
1908, purchased by the Museum of the American Indian (New York, New York, USA), no. 1/6817
January 1945, exchanged with (Julius Carlebach, dealer, New York, New York, USA)
purchased by Robert Hudson Tannahill (1893-1969
Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)
1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Eskimo, Native American, Mask, ca. 1900, polychromed wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.466.
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