MALE PORTRAIT MASK, 1973 alderwood, cedar bark, and paint, signed and dated, “Carved from Alderwood by FREDA DIESING / 1973”; inscribed with the artist’s initials, “
Freda Diesing was a Haida woman of the Sadsugohilanes Clan, one of very few female carvers of Northwest Coast totem poles and a member of the Council of the Haida Nation of British Columbia, Canada. Her Haida name is Skil Kew Wat, meaning “magical little woman.”
