16mm motion picture film

Tools

Museum number:
26-444
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21260000444
Alternate number:
Reel 339 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.1994
Object count:
1
Description:
Kwakiutl: Masks; men's and women's Hamatsa mask, Hohog mask, with moving beak, footage at Big House, Thunderbird Park, Victoria, B.C.; Mongo Martin displaying and demonstrating use of carving tools (adzes, knives, mauls); Henry Hunt fitting raven's beak to pole, painting pole. 16mm film, reel 339, 650', camera rolls 417-427 Original
Donor:
American Indian Film Project and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Thunderbird Park, Victoria, Vancouver Island
Verbatim coll. place:
Thunderbird Park, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Culture or time period:
Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1960-1965
Person depicted:
Henry Hunt
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume), Motion pictures (moving images), and Motion pictures (visual works)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits and 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Still and motion photography