Mask

Item number A5269 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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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

Atłaamł 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).