Mask

Item number A4156 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

Mask with protruding eyes and nose, a plastic ring at the base of the nose, eye holes beside the nose, and a large mouth with a protruding recurved tongue. The mask is painted white with heavy black eyebrows, black and orange concentric circles on the eyes, orange-red nostrils, mouth and tongue, and an abstract design in orange-red and black with black diagonal lines on the cheeks. Twisted cedar bark is attached on the sides and top.

History Of Use

Listener mask, from the atłaamł dance series. Listener: qoqwadesila (see Boas, 1921, pp. 1179-1220). Part of atlhaq!im of Harry Mountain (G. George, 1966).