Mask Item Number: A6031 a-c from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Mask (c) with a hooked nose, curved incised lines on the cheeks and chin, and two rounded ear-like protrusions at the sides of the mask. The mask is painted grey with heavy black eyebrows and black on the raised areas of the cheeks and chin. The nostrils and lips are red, and the ears are painted with concentric curved lines in black, grey and red. Horse hair and cedar bark attached at top of crown. Two separate mouthpieces: a) red lips open to expose two rows of off-white teeth; b) thick red lips, slightly open.
History Of Use
Worn with a button blanket. Mouths are carried in small baskets hung around dancers neck (D. Roberts, 1966).
Iconographic Meaning
Represents Echo: Sapa.
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in Kingcome Inlet, British Columbia, Canada and Ukwanalis, British Columbia, Canada
- Owned by Tom Patch Wamiss
- Received from Tom Patch Wamiss (Seller)
What
- Name
- Mask
- Identification Number
- A6031 a-c
- Type of Item
- mask
- Material
- fibre, wood, horse hair, cedar bark, paint and metal
- Manufacturing Technique
- carved and painted
- Part C
- height 36.8 cm, width 30.5 cm, depth 31.8 cm
- Part B
- height 9.0 cm, width 19.5 cm, depth 12.0 cm
- Part A
- height 8.3 cm, width 15.5 cm, depth 9.5 cm
Who
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
- Previous Owner
- Tom Patch Wamiss
- Received from
- Tom Patch Wamiss (Seller)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in
- Kingcome Inlet, British Columbia, Canada and Ukwanalis, British Columbia, Canada
Other
- Condition
- fair