Mask Item Number: A3679 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Mask with prominant nose and a mouth with slightly downturned corners. The mask is painted white with heavy black eyebrows accentuated with black lines above them, red nostrils bordered in black, red lips and chin, a heavy black moustache with curled ends, and black under the mouth as well as around the chin. There is also a black curvilinear design on the mask's right cheek.
Iconographic Meaning
Possibly speaker mask, hayaq!antalalhamlh, see Boas, 1895, Fig. 194; or Intruder mask, gaxalagamlh, see Mochon, 1966, Fig. 75
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada before 1951
- Collected in Hopetown, British Columbia, Canada and Hegam's, British Columbia, Canada
- Owned by George Williams before November 1951
- Received from H. R. MacMillan (Funding source) and George Williams (Seller) during November 1951
What
Who
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
- Previous Owner
- George Williams
- Received from
- H. R. MacMillan (Funding source) and George Williams (Seller)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in
- Hopetown, British Columbia, Canada and Hegam's, British Columbia, Canada
When
- Creation Date
- before 1951
- Ownership Date
- before November 1951
- Acquisition Date
- during November 1951
Other
- Condition
- fair
- Accession Number
- 1916/0001