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Portrait mask
Tsimshian
Skeena River, British Columbia
Northwest Coast, Canada
Circa 1850
Height: 23.5 cm ­ 9 ¼ in.
Ex collection William O. Oldman, London, before 1928
Ex collection André Breton, Paris
« Collection André Breton & Paul Eluard » auction sale, July 1931, Paris, lot 195
Ex private collection, France
William Ockelford Oldman
Hamilton House, 77 Brixton Hill, London, circa 1928
Photo: Courtesy The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa