Whale masks on display in Montréal
- 132-1-C-A-a040452
- Item
- 1969 or 1970
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Whale masks on display in Montréal for the Musem of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".
Whale masks on display in Montréal
Part of MOA General Media collection
Whale masks on display in Montréal for the Musem of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".
Visitors admire masks on display in Montréal
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Visitors admire masks on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest coast exhibit for "Man and His World".
Vincent Massey being shown a Sxwayxwey mask
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Vincent Massey being shown a Sxwayxwey mask at the Museum of Anthropology.
Vincent Massey being shown a Sxwayxwey mask
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Vincent Massey being shown a Sxwayxwey mask at the Museum of Anthropology.
Transformation masks on display in Montréal
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Transformation masks on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".
Transformation masks on display in Montréal
Part of MOA General Media collection
Transformation masks on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".
Transformation mask on display in Montréal
Part of MOA General Media collection
Transformation mask on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".
Transformation mask on display in Montréal
Part of MOA General Media collection
Transformation mask on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".
Part of MOA General Media collection
Display for an exhibit. Likely for "Tribal Control of the Supernatural." Displays several items including a staff, carved figures, and rattles. A Sxwayxwey mask is visible in the far right corner of the image.
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Display for the exhibit "Northwest Coast themes and variations." Shows several items featuring the killer whale including a drum, two masks, two feast dishes, rattles, model totem poles, and other objects.
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Display for the exhibit "Northwest Coast themes and variations." Shows several items featuring the killer whale including a drum, two masks, two feast dishes, rattles, model totem poles, and other objects.
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Display for the exhibit "Northwest Coast themes and variations." Shows several items featuring the killer whale including a drum, two masks, two feast dishes, rattles, model totem poles, and other objects.
The carving of a NWC mask often the work of a specialist
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Display for the museum. Uncertain relation to exhibitions. Shows two masks one in the process of being carved with tools nearby.
Splitting Dzunuk'wa mask from the Museum of Anthropology
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Roy Hanuse carving what appears to be a Dzunukwa mask.
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Persona viewing a catalogue in visible storage with a display of Pacific Northwest Coast masks behind her.
Packing in old museum in preparation for move 1975
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Image of a person packing a mask in the storage area of the old Museum of Anthropology.
Packing in old museum in preparation for move 1975
Part of MOA General Media collection
Image of a person packing a mask in the storage area of the old Museum of Anthropology.