Mask
Item number A4164 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
Item number A4164 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Xwixwi mask with protruding cylindrical eyes, hooked nose, and protruding recurved tongue. The mask is painted with green around the eyes, red nostrils, a red mouth and tongue, a black moustache, and thick black eyebrows. There is a scalloped border in black around the rim. An off-white cord is tied through three holes in the top reverse of the head and two holes either side of the face.
Represents Xwixwi, a Kwakwaka'wakw form of the Salish Sxwayxwey. See Boas, 1895, pg. 497, Figs. 170-171; pg. 516; or Holm, 1983, pg. 171.
ceremonial
Borrowed back by relations of Chief Harry Mountain for memorial potlatches in 1993 and 1996, and for a naming ceremony in 2000.
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ceremonial
Represents Xwixwi, a Kwakwaka'wakw form of the Salish Sxwayxwey. See Boas, 1895, pg. 497, Figs. 170-171; pg. 516; or Holm, 1983, pg. 171.
Xwixwi mask with protruding cylindrical eyes, hooked nose, and protruding recurved tongue. The mask is painted with green around the eyes, red nostrils, a red mouth and tongue, a black moustache, and thick black eyebrows. There is a scalloped border in black around the rim. An off-white cord is tied through three holes in the top reverse of the head and two holes either side of the face.
Borrowed back by relations of Chief Harry Mountain for memorial potlatches in 1993 and 1996, and for a naming ceremony in 2000.
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