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MaskA6168

Mask with movable lower jaw, curved lines representing gills on the cheeks, and a rounded beak-like nose. The mask has a cedar bark fringe at the top, back and bottom. The mask is painted black with white delineating the eyebrows, nostrils, lips and eye sockets, white gill lines, green around the eyes, red nostrils and lips, and a white curvilinear line that extends from the corner of the mouth to between the eye socket and nostril on both sides.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, cedar bark, fibre and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fish MaskA6222

Mask in the shape of a fish's head with incised curved gill-like lines on the cheeks, a pointed face, a movable jaw, and two copper thunderbird-like ears with curled tips on top of the head. A cedar bark fringe with a twisted cedar bark border and off-white feathers are attached at the top of the mask and extend down the back. The mask is painted a metallic grey with black eyebrows, white gill-like incisions, red nostrils and lips outlined in white, silver around the eyes with two dotted lines at the bottom of the eye sockets, and black and red designs on the ears.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cedar wood, feather, copper metal, fibre, cedar bark and paint
Made in
Blunden Harbour, British Columbia, Canada ? or Ba'as, British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressA3685

Headdress representing a wolf's head with a long snout, pronounced nostrils, a movable lower jaw, protruding rounded ears, and a bent branch frame at the back. Painted black with red nostrils and lips, black rectangles on the top lip, green around the eyes, white lines delineating the eyebrows and edges of the eye sockets, white designs on the ears, and a white strip down the top of the snout to the back of the head. The underside of the lower jaw is painted with a design in black. There are rectangular recesses in the eyebrows, presumably for shell inserts. Small holes in the sides of the snout.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, fibre, paint and dye
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressA4241

Wooden wolf headdress, or mask, adorned with a cedar bark fringe at the top back, and the mask has an elongated snout with pronounced nostrils as well as protruding rounded ears at the top of the head. Made from two pieces of wood joined by nailing. The mask is painted black with grey lines delineating the eyebrows, eye sockets, nostrils, and upper lip. The mask is also painted with green around the eyes, red design elements below the eyes, red and grey designs inside the ears, red nostrils and lips, and grey teeth.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, fibre, cedar bark and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressA4502

Wolf headdress made from two pieces of wood nailed together with a long snout, prominent nostrils, and two rounded ears at the top of the head. The headdress is painted black with white outlining the eyebrows as well as the top of the nostrils and upper lip, green around the eyes, red beside the eyes, a red design element to the sides of the mouth, red nostrils and lips, and two rows of exposed teeth and fangs. Cloth fragments are attached around the back of the headdress with metal nails. The ears are unpainted.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
metal, wood, fibre and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA6303

Mask depicting a beaver/Bagwis figure painted with a black and white design on the forehead and cheeks, green around the black and white circular eyes, black eyebrows that extend down to the dip of the nose, flared red nostrils, two large protruding teeth with red lips, and black and white crescent-shaped lines to either side of the mouth. There is a hole at the top of the forehead through which is attached a length of off-white string knotted with a loop at the top.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, paint and fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model CanoeA401 a-b

A painted brown wood model canoe (part a) with a human figure (part b). The interior of the canoe (part a) has an inner red rim and three horizontal rectangular bench seats, each of which has a hole drilled through the middle. The vertically grooved blue bow has an animal figure carving with big bulging black eyes, upraised three-lobed black eyebrows, an open mouth tha has red lips, and plain teeth, a red nose, and a blue body. The plain blue stern has a painted abstract motif consisting of a central circular blue eye that has teeth toward the middle of the boat and red extensions following the contours of the boat end. A human figure (part b) with a hat is sitting on a bench. The figure (part b) is sitting in a crouching, and curling position with its knees bent, and its elbows bent directly above with three curling figures for each hand. The figure's black eyes are surrounded by a dark blue area with black eyebrows above and a red mouth with a red body. The red and blue hat is cylindrical at the top and flares downward and outward at the bottom.

Culture
Heiltsuk
Material
paint and wood
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA3681

Face mask painted in black, green, white and red. Black forehead, heavy black brows that extend down to black cheeks, nose and chin. The area around the eyes is green with a scalloped bottom edge, bordered by white. The eyes themselves are black solid circles, with white around them. The nostrils and lips are red, with black and white around the mouth; both sides have a set of three vertical white carved and painted lines.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MaskA5272

Mask with a black design on natural wood on the forehead, heavy black eyebrows on off-white brows, green around protruding red-rimmed eyes with black pupils, a series of crescent shapes to the sides of the eyes painted black and white, a white nose with red nostrils, protruding stylized cheeks with black, red and white designs, red protruding lips with white and black around the mouth, and a border of black with incised white diagonal lines that runs from the ends of the eyebrows over the chin.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArrowA8395

Arrow with a double-barbed copper point that has two other barbs that point outwards perpendicular to the shaft of the arrow tip at the base of the arrow head shaft. The shaft is wrapped with cedar (?) at the arrow end. Plain cedar shaft with remains of feathers bound to shaft at butt end with off-white thread. Further down the shaft there is also a band of thin dark brown fibre wound around feather remains.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cedar wood, copper metal, feather, stem ? and fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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