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Item number 3163/1 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

Small carved face is wide and oval in shape, with a protruding nose over an open mouth with carved teeth top and bottom. Eyes are oblong, with small round pupils incised at top. Brows are heavy and have remnants of black paint on sides. Two small holes are bored through the wood below centre at each edge. Back is concave with a group of faded black lines running horizontally in the top section.

History Of Use

Original use unknown, however it appears to have originally been tied or pegged to the front of a headdress or frontlet? The upper part of the back is painted with diagonal lines on the top third of its concave surface, suggesting the top part may have extended above the piece it was attached to.

Narrative

The donor's husband purchased the carving in the late 1950s when he was a deckhand on the Thomas Crosby IV boat. It was sold to him off the dock of a coastal village--likely either Hartley Bay, Bella Bella or Bella Coola.