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Large Kwakiutl mask, NMAI, circa 1920

Photographer: Unknown, Non-Indian

Subject: Museum of the American Indian - Heye Foundation (MAI), 1916-1989

Date Created: circa 1920

Catalog Number: N03308

Format: Acetate negative

Dimensions: 5 x 7 in.

Collection History: Presumably commissioned by George Heye to document the early work of the Museum of the American Indian.

Description: Unidentified boy holding large mask (NMAI catalog number 040396.000), photographed at the Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation

Place: Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation, 155th Street and Broadway; New York City, Manhattan; New York County; New York; USA

Site Name: Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation, 155th Street and Broadway

Island Name: Manhattan Island

Culture/People: Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl),Non-Indian

Culture Hierarchy: Central Northwest Coast>Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)

Persistent URL:http://www.americanindian.si.edu/searchcollections/item.aspx?irn=363206

Repository:National Museum of the American Indian

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Camera location40° 49′ 57.8″ N, 73° 56′ 44.58″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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