Mask Item Number: A6241 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Mask with rounded ears at the top sides, wrinkles on the forehead, a flattened nose and tapering cylindrical protrusions from the cheeks. The mouth has four fangs and thick lips. The bottom jaw is nailed closed. The mask is painted with green and red ears, a white and black forehead, heavy black eyebrows with white edges, green around the eyes, black on the temples, upper cheeks and chin, white around the mouth, red nostrils and lips, and green on the outised of the cylindrical protrusions with white on the inside. Cord attached at reverse.
Iconographic Meaning
Represents Undersea Chief: Q!umugwe! but is very similar to sea-anemone mask.
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in Blunden Harbour, British Columbia, Canada and Ba'as, British Columbia, Canada
- Owned by Johnny Nolie before September 29, 1953
- Received from H. R. MacMillan (Funding source) and Johnny Nolie (Seller) on September 29, 1953
What
Who
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
- Previous Owner
- Johnny Nolie
- Received from
- H. R. MacMillan (Funding source) and Johnny Nolie (Seller)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in
- Blunden Harbour, British Columbia, Canada and Ba'as, British Columbia, Canada
When
- Ownership Date
- before September 29, 1953
- Acquisition Date
- on September 29, 1953
Other
- Condition
- good
- Current Location
- Case 40
- Accession Number
- 1944/0006