Headdress

Item number A3685 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

Headdress representing a wolf's head with a long snout, pronounced nostrils, a movable lower jaw, protruding rounded ears, and a bent branch frame at the back. Painted black with red nostrils and lips, black rectangles on the top lip, green around the eyes, white lines delineating the eyebrows and edges of the eye sockets, white designs on the ears, and a white strip down the top of the snout to the back of the head. The underside of the lower jaw is painted with a design in black. There are rectangular recesses in the eyebrows, presumably for shell inserts. Small holes in the sides of the snout.

History Of Use

Used in Walasaxa, also called "receiving a treasure", dLugwala. Harness is unusual in that it extends so far back; may have been used in a crouching/crawling wolf dance.