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Worn by Hamats!a.

Description

Carved wooden, crooked beak mask. The beak has a large red, ovoid shaped nostrils outlined with a band of black u-forms around it. Running from the brow is a large central black frill that protrudes outward and curves inward to the centre tip of the beak and back into itself. The mouth is red, flat and protruding; a band of black u-forms lines the upper beak and three red u-forms behind the corner of the beak. The face is black with white detailing; black and white u-forms behind the eye. The eyes are black, outlined in white and red on a white ovoid shaped ground; brow is black. The underside of the beak is black with u-forms around the edge. The inside of the mask is hollow; strips of fibre twine hang in intervals along the bottom edge. Attached to the top is a wooden crest with red split u-forms on a white ground. On the top are many bundles of small stripes of cedar bark that have numerous tufts of eagle down intertwined. Hanging from the back are long strips of cedar that would cover the wearer; a piece of fibre twine groups the long stripes together. The mask is painted black, white and red with Northwest Coast stylized forms.

Iconographic Meaning

Represents Crooked Beak of Heaven, Galugwadzawe', servant of Cannibal at the North End of the World, Baxbakwalanuksiwe'.