FALSE FACE MASK circa 1890

$14,625.00

1 in stock

Product ID: 1198 Category:

EASTERN  WOODLAND FALSE FACE MASK   Ca  1890

BASEWOOD -Native paints, wooden teeth.

Fine Condition- No repairs.

Such masks were worn in rituals to get rid of the influence of the evil “False Face Spirit”.

EX NIAGARA FALLS MUSEUM’s collection.

EX WILLIAM JAMIESON Collection.

WILLIAM JAMIESON was one of Canada’s most renowned dealers of ethnographic antiques. In his early career, Billy was described as the treasure-hunting Indiana Jones with a taste for the bizarre.  His collection included a dozen shrunken heads.  He was a reality TV star of History Channel’s Treasure Trader show.  Billy Jamieson became prominent after purchasing the entire content of the NIAGARA FALL MUSEUM, housing Canada’s oldest ethnographic and natural history collection of seven hundred thousand objects, including this fine old Eastern Woodland Mask.