Mask

Item number A6303 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

Mask depicting a beaver/Bagwis figure painted with a black and white design on the forehead and cheeks, green around the black and white circular eyes, black eyebrows that extend down to the dip of the nose, flared red nostrils, two large protruding teeth with red lips, and black and white crescent-shaped lines to either side of the mouth. There is a hole at the top of the forehead through which is attached a length of off-white string knotted with a loop at the top.

Iconographic Meaning

Identified as Man Under the Sea: Bagwis (C. George, J. Seaweed, 1966) also see Mochon, 1966, p. 66.; also as beaver: ts!awi (T. Johnson, W. Seaweed, 1966).