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Asset ID ptc-3835

Title Mask, wood, Sisiutl, double-headed serpent with anthropomorphic face in center, serpent tongues are retractable, serpent sections move back and forth, Kwakiutl

Date 1985

Is Part Of From the Land of the Totem Poles: The Northwest Coast Indian Art Collection at the American Museum of Natural History

Collection/Work Relation AMNH Special Collections, Photographic Transparency Collection, 4 x 5: 3835

Department Catalog Number(s) 16/6768

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Repository American Museum of Natural History

Publication History AMNH Library, E78.N78 A45 1988: American Museum of Natural History and Aldona Jonaitis. From the Land of the Totem Poles : The Northwest Coast Indian Art Collection at the American Museum of Natural History. New York: Museum, 1988. Contents.

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