Mask Item Number: 2655/63 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Red-black coloured demon(?) face with two snakes carved around the perimeter of the face from the jaw to the forehead and from the forehead to the chin. One snake's head is raised from the main body of the mask and has black-coloured dots on it with a slight green colour showing through the red. The other snake covering the mask's left side is brown coloured with green and blue colour showing through. Oval eyes are slanted inwards and are white-grey with black pupils. Mask has a large protruding nose with flared nostrils and looks animal-like. The mouth is open with tongue extended and two large white-grey hooked teeth face upward. On the upper portion of the inner mouth are two large circular holes and three smaller holes.