Sujet
Mask: Eagle, 1800s. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Mask: Eagle, 1800s. 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."
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F93_124
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
85,5Mo (4,6Mo) / 57,5cm x 37,2cm / 6792 x 4399 (300dpi)