Sujet
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)
Légende
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
Crédit
Photo12/Universal Images Group/Werner Forman
Notre référence
UMG12A29_115
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
38,9Mo (1,6Mo) / 31,0cm x 31,4cm / 3663 x 3709 (300dpi)