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MaskA6216

Mask with protruding cylindrical eyes that are moveable. The mask is painted with heavy black eyebrows, red nostrils and lips, a black moustache, and the cheeks are emphasized with red painted designs. The remainder of the face is painted white. Cedar bark fringe extends down back past the bottom of the mask.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, fibre, rubber ?, cedar bark and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cradle Blanket2319/1 a-j

Cradle accessories. Part a is a baby blanket of woven cedar bark; part b is a pillow of folded and tied cedar strips; part c is an upper cover for the blanket made of woven bark; part d is a woven head band which loops through parts f and g and holds part e over the baby's forehead; part e is a triangular shaped woven bark sun-shade; parts f-i are cedar cords that attach to the cradle sides; part j is a long cord that wraps around parts h and i.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cedar bark
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Puppet2607/2

Female tuxw'id puppet with cotton-stuffed white cloth body and carved wooden head, hands and feet. Unsewn strips of red fabric are tied around her neck, wrists and ankles. The face is marked by brightly painted red lips, black pupils and thick painted black eyebrows. Coarse black hair extends in tufts from holes covering the top and back of the head. It has been braided and secured with a hair elastic.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, paint and cotton fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Puppet2607/1

Male tuxw'id puppet with cotton-stuffed white cloth body and carved wooden head, hands and feet. Unsewn strips of red fabric are tied around his neck, wrists, and ankles. The face is marked by brightly painted red lips, black pupils and thick black eyebrows. Coarse black hair extends in tufts from holes covering the top and back of the head. It has been braided and secured with a twist tie.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, cotton fibre and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA3817

Carved wooden wolf mask with a long snout painted red and black with white edging. The muzzle was hinged to the lower jaw and is now nailed shut. The face has white edging around the green ovoid with black eyes on white background. The head of the mask has been covered with a piece of hide. Ears are attached to the top of the head and are decorated with black spots. The inside of the mask is hollow with the exception of carved, rectangular shaped handle used to hold the mask when worn. The handle is tied to the rim of the mask with twine. The mask is painted black, green, red and white with stylized designs.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, skin, fibre, paint and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Waxemedlagin xusbandayu' (Even Though I am the Last, I Still Count)Nb3.1494 a-b

Two mixed-media, photo-based installation panels. On panel 'a', the outer borders depict four wolves, while the inner photographic image is of the artist's aunts and uncles as children, and the larger image is of old growth forest in Kingcome Inlet. Panel 'b' depicts four ravens on the outer borders, while the inner photographic image is of the artist's mother and her youngest sister, inside the larger image of the water and islands around Gilford Island.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, paper, ink, plastic, paint and metal
Made in
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Button Blanket2525/1

Button blanket in green wool with two pink fabric t-shapes outlined in buttons, flanking a copper with a smiling face made of buttons at the centre of the blanket. Blanket has.a pink cotton border along the sides and the top and buttons sewn around the border with coppers and triangular shapes. There is a white rectangular piece of pink and green paisley and floral print fabric at the top centre of the border.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wool fibre, cotton fibre, plastic and shell
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Grizzly Bear House PostA50010 c-d

Two wood interior house posts (parts c-d) carved in the form of grizzly bear standing upright with his hind legs slightly bent, its front paws raised to its mouth and the paws bent downwards. Both posts are missing the bottom of its hind legs. The heads of the bears are identical with large protruding snouts that face downwards, deeply carved eyes and bared teeth. Each has a rectangular wooden protrusion at the top middle forehead.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
red cedar wood and metal
Made in
Gilford Island, British Columbia, Canada and Gwa'yasdam's, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PaddleA3192

Long, wooden paddle with a wide, flat, pointed blade and a cylindrical shaped handle. The shaft is rectangular shaped that thickens into a cylindrical shaped centre. The centre flattens out into the blade. The paddle is undecorated. Handle grip mortised (glued and nailed) to shaft.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, adhesive and metal
Made in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sisiutl/Full Moon2559/1

The image is circular in red, black, and white. A lower face with teeth showing holds up two black hands that have red palms. Two animals with teeth, fangs, and curving red tongues showing extend from the hands up around in a circle. Their black bodies have four pairs of sideways red split u scales. In the centre of the image, there is a smaller face with black inside the red mouth. Edition 6/90. Pencil inscription across the bottom edge reads 'Sisiutl/Full Moon 6/90' with a signature and a date of 90. The print is on relatively square, white paper.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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