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MaskAc212

Three dimensional helmet mask with black simulated hair at crown, and a bright yellow painted face in low relief with extensive black painted linear designs that are roughly symmetrical. The eyes and eyebrows are emphasized with black paint, and the mouth is painted red with several thin teeth and a central thicker piece of wood and metal representing the front teeth. There is a blue stone in a metal setting attached to each earlobe.

Culture
Makonde
Material
wood, paint, hair, fibre, pigment, metal and plastic ?
Made in
Tanzania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureA2628

Carved male torso on a thick base. The figure is holding a box up to his chest and has a long braid down his back. The upper section of the base is carved with an eye form on either side and a mouth(?) form on the front.

Culture
Nuu-chah-nulth ? or Coast Salish ?
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA2498

Mask representing a sea monster with large protruding eyes that each point outward, thick lips with a movable lower jaw, circular suckers on the cheeks, and horn-like protrusions on top of the head. Mainly painted blue and white with red-rimmed eyes, red nostrils and lips, and red on the suckers. Nail holes and fibre remnants on the reverse.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, paint and metal
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA2497

Human face with a wrinkled forehead and large protruding ears, lips, eyebrows, and nose. The circular eyes are inset with mirrors and metal rims that are sunken in orange eye sockets. Long curvilinear grooves extend down the sides of the face to the shin from the ears. Cedar bark fringe attached at top of the head is short in the front and long in the back. The mask is painted with orange and blue on the forehead and ears, black brows with white underneath that extends down in a curve on either side of the face that forks at the end beside the mouth, orange around the eyes and on the nostrils and lips, orange and blue on the grooves at the sides of the face, and the remainder of the face is painted black.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, paint, cedar bark and glass
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA2496

Face with wide protruding mouth, large hooked nose, bulging eyes, and markedly protruding ears. Animal fur attached at chin, eyebrows, and top of head where three loops of cedar root (?) are also attached. Rectangular piece of black fur sewn to black cloth hangs from back; another light brown cloth nailed to back, as are green and light brown cords.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, paint, cedar root ?, skin and cotton fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pole FigureA2491

Carving of a mask-shaped humanoid face that is somewhat flat, with a slightly protruding brow, eyes, nose and mouth. The figure is painted with a brown forehead that has an abstract design in light blue, white, red and dark yellow; a green brow with white edges; black around the eyes and over the bridge of the nose; white cheeks, nose tip, and chin; red nostrils and lips; a black moustache; and a black vertical band at the centre of the chin.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood and paint
Made in
'Yalis (Alert Bay), British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skull RepresentationA2481

Ornament in the shape of a flattened skull, carved and painted on both sides. The eye holes pierce through the wood, and the mouth is carved in a zigzag tooth pattern. The mouth and chin are painted red, and the remainder of the skull is painted white. There is a hole bored through chin, and one through top of head through which is tied to attach some shreds of cedar bark. There are also a few shreds of cedar bark in the chin hole.

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