Mask: Eagle

1800s Overall: 35.6 x 45.8 x 24.2 cm (14 x 18 1/16 x 9 1/2 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.547

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...

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