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The paint is red and black. The leather is white. The fur is fox (animal). The nail is copper ore.

Culture: Tsimshian
Material: wood, paint, leather, fur, fox, string, nail and copper ore metal
Holding Institution: The Burke: University of Washington

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It is not difficult to see how the theatrically sophisticated people of the Northwest Coast, people with traditions of representing in art and dance the creatures of history and myth, would conceive of and utilize puppets and marionettes. The imagination required to make lifeless wood seem alive is a requisite of the mask maker. Puppets and marionettes are extensions of the mask carver's work of bringing the myth-people to life. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)

Culture: Tsimshian
Material: wood, leather, string, paint and nail
Holding Institution: The Burke: University of Washington

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