Image of a mask carved by Willie Seaweed and 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 mask carved by Willie Seaweed and 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.
Subseries consists of drawings created by Sawyer of various Northwest Coast masks housed in museums in North America and Europe. On each of these drawings, Sawyer notes the museum in which the mask is housed as well as each mask’s catalogue number. For some of the drawings, Sawyer provides additional information about the masks such as the First Nations community from which the mask originated, its dimensions, the approximate dates of the mask’s creation, and other special features about the mask such as its coloring and/or any attachments included with the mask.
Mask display in the Vancouver Centennial Museum. This display was installed by the Museum of Anthropology as the opening exhibition of the Vancouver Centennial Museum.
