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FrontletA2463

Roughly circular in shape with small human head projecting from top above a face with wide mouth and rectangular teeth; downturned tip of nose attached to chin. Eyes inlaid with metal discs. Flat rim projects around circumference of mask and is inlaid with abalone pieces in various shapes, primarily rectangular. Two holes bored in rim below chin and two above forehead.

Culture
Nuxalk
Material
wood, abalone shell, metal and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA5297

Mask of a human face. Dark red/yellow-brown face has circular cut out hole eyes surrounded by a tapering and an area around the eyes that is recessed in suggestion of an ovoid shape with black brows above. The nostrils are cut out as is the thinly parted, slightly downturned mouth. The chin is pointed. Around the eyes and the cheeks, there is a black-painted delicate design consisting of a pair of u forms that have diagonal lines within. Remains of red paint in some areas. Leather thongs are attached with nails to the sides and the top of the mask at the rear.

Culture
Tsimshian: Gitxaala ?
Material
wood, paint, leather skin and metal
Made in
Kitkatla, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PaddleA2502

Wood paddle with a marquise-shaped blade with the widest point near the tip and narrowing to the shaft which is round in cross section. Butt is flared and rectangular in cross section with an indentation cut near the end. Handle is cut in the shape of a transverse cylinder, one end of which is broken off. Design is of a fish (?) painted on blade in green and black on one side and in turquoise and white on the other side.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PaddleA2501

Wood paddle with an elongated marquise-shaped blade, widening to a butt which has a flat handle. Design painted in black and red on the blade with two pairs of semi-cricles at either side with a vertical row of red dots in between and a black split u at the tip of the blade. Hole drilled near the butt of the paddle.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA2488

Human face mask. The orange-brown face has circular cut out hole eyes outlined by black and surrounded by a plain tapering oval with triangular, black brows above. The cut out nostrils are red as are the lips. Chin area is black. Sixteen nail heads in forehead. Attached, there are two screw eyes with a piece of cord threaded through them.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
wood, paint, metal and cotton fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA2486

Human face mask. The green-brown face has circular cut out hole eyes outlined by black and surrounded by a plain tapering oval and surrounded by a deep red area with black dashed brows above. The nostrils are deep red as is the open grimaced mouth showing eight plain teeth. Has a black moustache and goatee. Along the prominent cheekbones, there is a curving deep red u form that has black dashes within. Very smooth surface finish. A pair of holes is at either side through the ears and one at the top middle.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskNb3.1301

Mask with protruding angled eyebrows, nose, lips, cheeks and chin. The mask is painted black with white, black and orange scallop designs over and beside the eyebrows, heavy black eyebrows with white edges, white on the cheeks and around the mouth, red nostrils and pointed lips. There is a collar-like chin that projects to the sides and may represent a fish's tail. There is a series of holes at the top of the head and along the edges to the sides.

Culture
Nuxalk
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dance KnifeNb3.1300

Warrior dance knife, or baton in the form of Sisiutl. A long thin downward curving wood piece with a central frontal head and a profile head on either side. The profile heads at either side have scales along their backs with long upward curving protruding tongues. The central frontal head has two upward and outward curling horn-like appendage at the top, and each profile head on either side has another upward and backward curling horn-like appendage at the top. Painted black and red.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cedar wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FrontletA2465

Carved wooden frontlet. Central figure is the face of an eagle, over a whale. The dorsal fin of the whale is represented by a small face with upright crest on the top edge of the frontlet. Flat margin around the main figures is inlaid with rectangular and circular pieces of abalone as are the eyes and various other parts of the main figures.

Culture
Nuxalk
Material
wood, abalone shell and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA2601

Carved, wooden mask depicting Dzunuk’wa. The humanoid face with pursed red lips, high cheekbones, raised eyebrows and deeply set eyes, with a series of parallel horizontal lines incised next to them. There are two metal eyehooks attached to the back rim of the mask with a metal wire tied to them.

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