Mask
Item number A6342 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
Item number A6342 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Small mask with cedar bark fringe. The mask is painted with black hair, small black eyebrows on a white forehead, white around the eyes and on the nose, and red nostrils. The remainder of the face is painted in red, and red lines forming a part of the lower part surround the white around the eyes. The mouth is slightly open. Green cord attached at the reverse.
Mother Giving Birth mask; used in the atłaamł dance series. Grouse calls the woman, who comes out dancing; then she crouches down by the fire and two masked children (boy and girl) appear from under the mother's blanket and proceed to dance with her and another woman representing the midwife.
Woman giving birth, mama'yulalaga. (A6343 may represent one of her children.)
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Small mask with cedar bark fringe. The mask is painted with black hair, small black eyebrows on a white forehead, white around the eyes and on the nose, and red nostrils. The remainder of the face is painted in red, and red lines forming a part of the lower part surround the white around the eyes. The mouth is slightly open. Green cord attached at the reverse.
Woman giving birth, mama'yulalaga. (A6343 may represent one of her children.)
Mother Giving Birth mask; used in the atłaamł dance series. Grouse calls the woman, who comes out dancing; then she crouches down by the fire and two masked children (boy and girl) appear from under the mother's blanket and proceed to dance with her and another woman representing the midwife.
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