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Kwakwaka’wakw Chief’s mask

This item is a chief’s mask, from the Kwakwaka’wakw tribe in British Columbia. The design of the mask involves human hair and exaggerated facial features supposed to represent a woman in the woods. This item was created in traditional style, to be…

Tags: 19th century, British Columbia, Chief’s mask, Colonialism, Indigenous Peoples, Kwakwaka’wakw, Mask, Material Culture, Material Object, Museum Age, Museum Scramble, ritualism

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