Speaker’s Face Mask

Reference : 189

Speaker’s Face Mask

Red cedar wood(Thuja plicata), black pigment
Dimension: Height 20.3cm
Collector’s label n°1571
Historical period
Presumed period: ^19th century
Kwakiult population
Central coast of British Columbia.
Canada

Source :
Private collection, Montreal
Rossman Collection, New York
Sotheby’s New York. 28.11.1989, lot 189
Jeffrey Myers, New York
Peggy & Paul Rabut Collection, Massachusetts
bought the next one in 1958
Merton Simpson, New York

More details

This convex, tapered mask is carved in the classical style. Perforated mouth with slightly parted lips.

The naturalistic nose has hollowed-out nostrils. Large, diamond-shaped eyes are sculpted with centered, pierced circular pupils. The high, arched eyebrows are highlighted, like the moustache and beard, with a line of black pigment. Black linear markings on the midsection and forehead represent tattoos.

The concave reverse, with fine gouge marks, has six fixing holes around the perimeter.

This type of mask represented a particular character or an ancestral spiritual being.

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