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Image of a Sxwayxwey mask. May have been provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for use in his book "The Way of the Masks." Photographer may have been Bill Holm.

Image of a Sxwayxwey mask. May have been provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for use in his book "The Way of the Masks." Photographer may have been Bill Holm.

Image of a Sxwayxwey mask. May have been provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for use in his book "The Way of the Masks."

Image of a Sxwayxwey mask from the Museum of Anthropology. Photograph was likely provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." Photograph was likely taken by Bill Holm.

Image of a Sxwayxwey mask carved by Andrew Charles. This image was provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." Likely photographed by Bill Holm.

Image of a Sxwayxwey mask from the Museum of Anthropology. Photograph was likely provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." Photograph was likely taken by Bill Holm.

Image of a Sxwayxwey mask from the Museum of Anthropology. Photograph was likely provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." Photograph was likely taken by Bill Holm.

Image of a Sxwayxwey mask from the Museum of Anthropology. Photograph was likely provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks". Photograph was likely taken by Bill Holm.

Image of a Sxwayxwey mask. May have been provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for use in his book "The Way of the Masks." Photographer may have been Bill Holm.

Image of a Sxwayxwey mask. May have been provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for use in his book "The Way of the Masks."

Image of a Cowichan dancer wearing a Sxwayxwey mask and costume. This image may have been provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." It was taken by Edward S. Curtis.

Image of a dancer wearing a Sxwayxwey mask and costume. This image may have been provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." This image may have been taken by Edward S. Curtis.

Display for the exhibit "The Shaman of the Northwest Coast." Prominently displays four Sxwayxwey masks.

File contains images of Stan Green carving outside his workshop as well as close up images of his masks. In addition is coresspondence between Stan Green and Darrin Morrison inviting Green to speak at an event.

Subseries consists of material produced by museum staff, among them Wilson Duff, Harry and Audrey Hawthorn, Marjorie Halpin, and Gloria Cranmer Webster. There is extensive material on Audrey Hawthorn’s Art of the Kwakiutl Indians. Included in this subseries are ca. 2000 photographs which were collected for possible use in this book. Photographs are numbered A38-A17206 with many numbers missing throughout. The majority of photographs are of wooden masks, but they are also of bowls, bentwood boxes, paddles, rattles, totem poles, talking sticks, headdresses and frontlets, wooden figures and miniatures, whistles, spoons, silver bracelets, argillite carvings, button blankets, chilkat blankets, cedar head and neck rings, woodworking tools, stone tools, and fish hooks. Other record forms included in this subseries include correspondence, notes and published materials.

Image of a splitting Dzunuk'wa mask from the Museum of Anthropology. Likely provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." Photograph was likely taken by Bill Holm.

Image of a splitting Dzunuk'wa Mask. This image was provided to the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." Photograph was likely taken by Bill Holm.

Image of a splitting Dzunuk'wa Mask. This image was provided to the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." Photograph was likely taken by Bill Holm.