Magicians or Shamans Performing Item Number: 1749/6 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Colourful print with eleven faces on it. Central frontal purple human head with a red mouth that extends into the red hoods of a profile black and white human head at either side. Central head also has a black and white profile human head facing one another within at either side. Two diagonally upward brown-grey profile human heads facing downward extend from the top of the central head, one at either side and on top, in between their necks, there are two black and white profile human heads in green hoods facing one another. Two figures are standing, wearing green clothing, on their purple fish tails at the left and right sides of the print. The background, from top to bottom, is in undulating colours of blue, brown, yellow, brown, blue, yellow, brown, and red. In the lower right corner, there is a small yellow image of a right pointing arrow emerging from a bulge pointing to pencilled syllabic. Pencil inscription across the bottom edge reads ‘Magicians or Shamans Performing 45/45 1986 Simon Tookoome / M Noah’. In the lower right corner, there is a circular embossing. The print is on horizontally rectangular white paper.