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Auction 89, Lot 338

"Plate LXXV",

Subject: Native Americans

Period: 1904 (published)

Publication: 23rd Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology 1901-02

Color: Printed Color

Size:
7 x 9.5 inches
17.8 x 24.1 cm
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A great plate with three ceremonial Zuni masks showing both the front and back of each one. Includes mask of god and goddesses accompanying He'mishikwe. This original heliotype, color plate is from this important early anthropological report on the ceremonial life of the Zuni pueblo.

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Condition: A+

Estimate: $35 - $50

Sold for: $0

Closed on 12/8/1999

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