Mask Item Number: A3586 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Female face mask with orange and red hair-like curvilinear bands that sweep down from the top of the mask around the sides to the bottom of the jaw, heavy black eyebrows, green around the slightly protruding eye holes, orange nostrils and lips, black on the chin divided with a carved red line, and orange designs just below the cheeks. The mouth is slightly protruding and open, and the chin also protrudes. Green cord attached at several points around the edge at the reverse of the mask with metal nails.
Narrative
Stylistically this mask is unquestionably Nuxalk (Holm; Macnair), but it may have been made by a Nuxalk artist and then passed into the Kwakwaka'wakw community, where it was collected.
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada before 1952
- Collected in Village Island, British Columbia, Canada and 'Mimkwamlis, British Columbia, Canada
- Owned by Jim Charlie before March 1952
- Received from Jim Charlie (Seller) and H. R. MacMillan (Funding source) during March 1952
What
Who
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
- Previous Owner
- Jim Charlie
- Received from
- Jim Charlie (Seller) and H. R. MacMillan (Funding source)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in
- Village Island, British Columbia, Canada and 'Mimkwamlis, British Columbia, Canada
When
- Creation Date
- before 1952
- Ownership Date
- before March 1952
- Acquisition Date
- during March 1952
Other
- Condition
- fair
- Current Location
- Case 11
- Accession Number
- 1850/0003