Mask Item Number: A3682 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Mask with acute angle overall, heavy brow, hooked nose with flared nostrils, and closed mouth. The mask is painted white overall with black curved lines on the forehead, heavy black brows, green around the eyes with a scalloped edge at the bottom, red on the temples, black over the bridge of the nose, red nostrils, red and black designs on the cheeks, a black scalloped gill design around the mouth, a black chin and moustache, and red lips.
Iconographic Meaning
Identified as Q!umukwamlh, Undersea Chief (M. Martin, 1951).
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada before 1951
- Collected in Kingcome Inlet, British Columbia, Canada and Ukwanalis, British Columbia, Canada
- Owned by Tom Patch Wamiss before January 1951
- Received from H. R. MacMillan (Funding source) and Tom Patch Wamiss (Seller) during January 1951
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 1951
- Ownership Date
- before January 1951
- Acquisition Date
- during January 1951
Other
- Condition
- fair
- Current Location
- Case 40
- Accession Number
- 1902/0002