Speaker Mask

Iroquois people, Native American

  • Titles Speaker Mask (Descriptive)
  • Medium wood, paint, horse hair
  • Dimensions Overall: 11 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. (28.6 x 19.7 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Richard F. Howard, 1981.129
  • Work Type mask
  • Classification Costume

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Glossy blackware bowl with Avanyu (water serpent) in raised relief within deeply carved recessed band around bowl; tongue of water serpent in shape of zig-zag terminating in arrow. Areas of the recessed band around Avanyu in matte black.
Artist-manipulated digitally reproduced photograph by C.M. (Charles Milton) Bell; subject is Bia Eélisaash/Large Stomach Woman (Pregnant Woman) / Two Belly seated, half-length profile. Elements of regalia outlined in red and text annotations in red radiate from figure.
Abstract composition in shades of brown, ivory, and green, has multiple rectangular forms juxtaposed with black linear outlines of a felled tree, a vessel, a canoe, a wheel, an animal head, and other forms.
Inuit print process of stonecutting