Mask Item Number: A3788 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Mask with a prononced brow, hooked nose, downturned mouth, recessed eye sockets, and four angled protruding wooden planks with rounded ends. The mask is painted off-white with a red fin-like linear design on the forehead, black eyebrows, green around the eyes, dark red over the nose and mouth, red and green on the protruding planks, a black moustache and goatee, and a dark red design on the cheeks as well as spots of dark red on the jaw.
Iconographic Meaning
Represents Sun: Tlh!isala, (Mungo Martin, 1952).
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada before 1952
- Collected in Kingcome Inlet, British Columbia, Canada and Ukwanalis, British Columbia, Canada
- Owned by Tom Patch Wamiss before April 1952
- Received from H. R. MacMillan (Funding source) and Tom Patch Wamiss (Seller) during April 1952
What
Who
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
- Previous Owner
- Tom Patch Wamiss
- Received from
- H. R. MacMillan (Funding source) and 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
When
- Creation Date
- before 1952
- Ownership Date
- before April 1952
- Acquisition Date
- during April 1952
Other
- Condition
- fair
- Current Location
- Case 40
- Accession Number
- 1899/0007