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Sea Monster in Dance Mask - ya gis3278/1

Painting on paper of a person wrapped in a green and red button blanket, wearing a large mask, with a prominent scalloped nose emerging from front over a red mouth with bared teeth; there are three large fins on the top. Designs decorate the face in colours of orange, yellow, blue and green. The blanket has a fish or aquatic creature design on the back. Light yellow background. Paper is corrugated along one edge.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sea Man - Ba gwis3279/1

Painting on paper. On a light yellow background stand two figures facing each other in fighting pose, slightly crouched with hands raised to the front. Each wears a one piece decorated garment, as well as a large headdress and long cascading hair. The right headdress has a bird at top. Paper is corrugated along one edge.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Thunder Bird3279/2

Painting on paper. On a light yellow background stands a large bird facing front, wings outstretched and curving above its head. Bird looks to the right, with head crest extending behind. A face covers the torso, with ovoid eyes and a wide mouth showing bared teeth. Wings are decorated in bright colours. Paper is corrugated along one edge.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Wildmans Red Cedarbark Mask Dance3278/2

Painting on paper. Five figures, all wearing large masks with long snouts and slightly open mouths, coloured black, red, green and yellow. Long capes of orange and yellow cedar bark fall from each mask, obscuring the figures beneath. The two front-most figures have yellow legs emerging from the cedar, with leg bands wrapped around their calves. Light yellow background.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
ink
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sea Monster2984/1

Horizontally rectangular "Sea Monster" painting, on paper. Painting shows a sea monster with a wide grinning mouth displaying even teeth, a thick beard, and a pronounced forehead coloured black and yellow. Two large pinschers sit below the creature, while six heavily suckered arms protrude from the conical crown of the head. Painting is signed in the bottom right with blue ink.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Wasp Dance, Ha-ma-sa-la-tla-mi2983/1

Horizontally rectangular "Wasp Dance" painting, on paper. Painting shows two figures performing a wasp dance, in full regalia of feathered costumes and masks each with long nose and needles protruding from the end. The left figure has a green stinger at rear while the right has a face with intense eyes and a wide grinning mouth on the torso. Both figures have bare feet. Painting is signed in the bottom right with blue ink.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sea Monster, Ya-Gish2871/56

Print of a sea creature with fish and human attributes. Creature is upright in a running position, in profile, facing proper left. Has large eye outlined in blue, mouth lined blue, five red crescents outside its mouth that appear to be gills. Mouth has teeth and a red tongue. Has three claws on each hand (2) and foot (2). There is a two-pronged fin near the base of its back. Large designs on body in green, red, black and blue. Also small multi-coloured marks all over body that gives appearance of fur. There is a smaller creature on its back, the face near the main creature's neck. Black inscription below image. The print is on vertically rectangular, off-white paper.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sea Raven, Gwa-WisNb3.1340

Configurative design of sea raven in Kwakwaka'wakw style. Image of mask with the head of a raven and the heads of other creatures on top of the head. Under the raven, there is human face which is on top of grass. The grass is red, yellow, and black. Most of the design is in black including dashes on the raven and all outlining. There are multi-coloured split-u's and orange, blue, and green u forms. All the mouths are open with teeth and red outlining. Raven has red nostrils in ovoid shapes. Black inscription below image. The print is on vertically rectangular, off-white paper.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Otter- Khwum DeA17127

Roughly bilaterally symmetrical, black on white image of two profile otters with heads at the top and tails to the bottom. Limbs at centre on either side of u form with point at the top. Heads meet at black triangle. Teeth are bared. Series of u forms along curved backbone to outside. Curved tails have a series of uneven u forms. Black inscription below image. The print is on vertically rectangular, off-white paper.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Otter- Khwum DeNb3.1400

Roughly bilaterally symmetrical, black on white image of two profile otters with heads at the top and tails to the bottom. Limbs at centre on either side of u form with point at the top. Heads meet at black triangle. Teeth are bared. Series of u forms along curved backbone to outside. Curved tails have a series of uneven u forms. Black inscription below image. The print is on vertically rectangular, off-white paper.

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