Tatanua Mask

Artist Unknown

Datebefore 1900

MediumWood, paint, fiber, and other natural materials

Dimensions17 x 8 1/8 in. (43.2 x 20.6 cm)

ClassificationsTextiles

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hanes

Object number86.9

On View

Not on view

Published ReferencesIntroduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (color) 66.

Mary Ellen Soles, entry for Helmet Mask (Tatanua), in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 50, illus. (color), detail (color) 46.

Mary Ellen Soles, entry for Helmet Mask (Tatanua), in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 102, illus. (color) 103.
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