False Face
- Date created
- 1978
- Culture/People
- Seneca [Cattaraugus]
- Artist/Maker
- Norman L. Jimerson (Norm Jimerson), Seneca [Cattaraugus], b. 1951
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Norman L. Jimerson (Norm Jimerson), Seneca [Cattaraugus], b. 1951
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the artist in 1978; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Place
- Irving; Chautauqua County; New York; USA
- See related items
- Seneca [Cattaraugus]
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 26/1926
- Barcode
- 261926.000
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Title
- False Face
- Object Name
- Figure (Image withheld)
- Media/Materials
- Steatite/soapstone, quartz
- Techniques
- Carved, polished
- Dimensions
- 16.5 x 11.0 x 37.5 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_278033