Mask Item Number: A5269 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Mask with a long tuft of orange, grey, brown and off-white feathers attached to a stick and protruding from the top of the forehead. The mask is painted with heavy black eyebrows, a green design on the forehead, red around the slightly protruding eyes, a green line across the cheeks and bridge of the nose, red nostrils and thin lips, a black moustache and goatee, and a curved dotted green line extending from the side of the chin to the nose on both sides of the face.
History Of Use
Atłaamł Forest Spirit mask ("taken far away into the woods"). The dance involved the display of a gift or forest treasure, often the mask worn by the dancer (see Hawthorn, 1967, p. 57).
Cultural Context
ceremonial
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Owned by Walter C. Koerner before 1972
- Received from Walter C. Koerner (Donor) during 1972
What
Who
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
- Previous Owner
- Walter C. Koerner
- Received from
- Walter C. Koerner (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
When
- Ownership Date
- before 1972
- Acquisition Date
- during 1972
Other
- Condition
- fair
- Accession Number
- 0160/0021