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The acrylic paint is black and red.

Culture: Kwakwaka'wakw
Material: cedar wood, string, horse hair, copper metal and acrylic paint
Holding Institution: The Burke: University of Washington

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The paint is red, black, and white.

Culture: Kwakwaka'wakw
Material: wood, paint and hair
Holding Institution: The Burke: University of Washington

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Culture: Kwakwaka'wakw: 'Namgis
Material: cedar wood
Holding Institution: The Burke: University of Washington

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Culture: Kwakwaka'wakw: Kwikwasut'inuxw and Kwakwaka'wakw: 'Namgis
Holding Institution: The Burke: University of Washington

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Dzoonokwa, a Sasquatch-like creature, belongs to a family of humanoid giants who are both beneficial and menacing to humans. She is known to steal children, but can also bestow power and wealth. A chief who wears this mask when he speaks demonstrates that his ancestors gained this power. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)

Culture: Kwakwaka'wakw
Material: wood, hair, paint and graphite
Holding Institution: The Burke: University of Washington

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The paint is black and red.

Culture: Kwakwaka'wakw
Material: wood, paint and human hair
Holding Institution: The Burke: University of Washington

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Dzoonokwa, one of the best known mythical personages in Kwakwaka'wakw art, is usually represented as a female. She is a giantess of great strength and awesome appearance. Her characteristic features are large size, dark hairy body, hanging breasts, and a great head with heavy brow, arched nose, sunken cheeks and eyesockets, and lips pushed foward and rounded to produce her fearsome cry, "Oooooh!" (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)

Culture: Kwakwaka'wakw: Gwa'sala
Material: wood, paint and human hair
Holding Institution: The Burke: University of Washington

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