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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

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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