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Description

Carved wooden Tanis mask painted black and composed of two heads, one on top of the other. The bottom head is smaller, without a jaw; jagged natural wood coloured teeth are edged in red. The nose curves up to form the brows above bulging eyes in deep red orbits detailed in red. The upper head has a large hooked nose, faced in nailed on metal; bared teeth, detailed in red with remnants of white. The deep-set ovoid eyes have central holes rimmed in red then white. The left eye has a house-shaped pane of glass and the right eye has a series of holes above.

Narrative

Raley catalogue (1934): "Kitlope. Cannibal mask for Tannise dancers." [Also, see notes for A1782 and A1784.] C.M. Barbeau (1939) described the mask as: "Hamatsa mask from Gardner's Inlet; part of a group of 3." (From Barbeau photo notes, in the Archives at the Canadian Museum of History.)

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