Haida portrait mask
A 1907 London anthropological study by Henry Balfour, published by the Anthropological Institute for scholars of Northwest Coast material culture, documenting a Haida carved wooden portrait mask. The plate shows the mask from the front and from below in sepia photographs, with carved brow ridges, deep-set eyes, and an open mouth with visible teeth, suggesting a designer could draw on its strong carved planes and expressive relief for woodcut-style or tribal-inspired graphics.
