Title
Headdress with seal mask said to have been used in a dance which preceded the execution of condemned prisoners (represented by the five anthropomorphic figures)
Caption
Headdress with seal mask said to have been used in a dance which preceded the execution of condemned prisoners (represented by the five anthropomorphic figures), The crouching figure resembles land otterman. It was believed that those not cremated were doomed to wander the world in land otter form. Northwest Coast of America. Tsimshian.
Info+
Werner Forman Archive/ Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
Credit line
Photo12/Universal Images Group/Werner Forman
Reference
UMG12A29_117
Model release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
34,4Mb (1,3Mb) / 11,5in x 11,6in / 3444 x 3488 (300dpi)