Sharkman Mask
Norman Jackson, Tlingit / American, born 1957
Tlingit
Northwest Coast
about 2004
Alder wood, paint
Overall: 12 × 9 9/16 × 5 1/16 in. (30.5 × 24.3 × 12.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Fund
2006.49
Geography
Place Made: Tongass Village, Ketchikan, United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact: Mask
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Northwest Coast
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, on reverse, in black ink: Norman G Jackson / 8/29/04
Course History
NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Spring 2012
NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2013
NAS 37, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Medeia Krisztina C. DeHass, Spring 2013
ANTH 3, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Sienna Craig, Summer 2013
NAS 37, ANTH 47, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Winter 2014
NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2015
NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2015
NAS 37, ANTH 37, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Spring 2015
Exhibition History
Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 6, 2006-February 11, 2007.
Publication History
Southwest Art magazine, December 2004, p. 4, 42.
Provenance
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia; sold to present collection, 2006.
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