Mask Item Number: A4247 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Mask with overall ovoid shape, hooked nose, circular eye holes, and an open smiling mouth. The mask is painted white with black eyebrows, green around the eyes with blue and black eyes, red lips, a black moustache in two parts with curled ends, a black chin, and orange curvilinear and scalloped designs on the cheeks. An off-white string is strung through the holes at the sides of the mask.
History Of Use
Speaker mask: hayaqantalalhamlh.
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada before 1953
- Collected in Blunden Harbour, British Columbia, Canada and Ba'as, British Columbia, Canada
- Owned by Willie George before March 18, 1953
- Received from Willie George (Seller) and H. R. MacMillan (Funding source) on March 18, 1953
What
Who
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
- Previous Owner
- Willie George
- Received from
- Willie George (Seller) and H. R. MacMillan (Funding source)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in
- Blunden Harbour, British Columbia, Canada and Ba'as, British Columbia, Canada
When
- Creation Date
- before 1953
- Ownership Date
- before March 18, 1953
- Acquisition Date
- on March 18, 1953
Other
- Condition
- fair
- Current Location
- Case 27
- Accession Number
- 1941/0003