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Kwakwaka’wakw Transformation Mask (1900-1920)

Artifact is a Transformational ceremonial mask originating from the Kwakwaka’wakw tribe, a Pacific Northwest Coast Indigenous people. The mask is carved from wood in an oval human shape with hinges revealing a similar human face with whale motifs…

Tags: 20th century, British Columbia, Ceremonial Mask, Ceremony, Gwawa’enuxw, Iconography, Indigenous Peoples, Kwakwaka’wakw, Mask, Material Culture, Material Object, Museum Age, Museum Scramble, oral history, ritualism, Spirituality, Transformation Mask, Wood Carving

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