Loon Transformation Mask
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Cherokee
- Artist/Maker
- Don Morse Smith (Lelooska), Cherokee descent, 1933-1996
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Don Morse Smith (Lelooska), Cherokee descent, 1933-1996
- Title
- Loon Transformation Mask
- Object Name
- Mask
- Media/Materials
- Red cedar, paint, cotton cloth, commercial suede, twine/string
- Techniques
- Carved, painted
- Dimensions
- 74.7 x 35 x 26.4 cm
- Object Type
- Masks and Masking
- Place
- Ariel; Cowlitz County; Washington; USA (inferred)
- Date created
- 1966
- Collection History
- Commissioned by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the artist in 1966; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
- Catalog Number
- 25/8269
- Barcode
- 258269.000
- See related items
- Cherokee
- Masks and Masking
- On View
- NMAI, Washington DC: Window on Collections, Animals
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement