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From card: "This mask represents "Nulmal" used in the fool dance. (See Boas page 477). Exhibit Hall 9, 1987. Identified in exhibit label as Noolthmalth, or Fool Dancer, Kwakiutl, collected about 1900."Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) and Karen Anderson (Nuxalk elder) of the delegation from Bella Bella, Bella Coola and Rivers Inlet communities of British Columbia made the following comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit May 20th - 24th, 2013. The mask contains possible human hair and copper inlays. The mask has a classic Nuxalk aesthetic, especially the sculpting in the mouth and eyebrows. Thought to be alder and has parts made of yellow or red cedar. The carver of the piece seems to be someone from Bella Coola, due to the stylization of the mask.