Video recording

Museum number:

26-444.video

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm2126444@2evideo

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.

Collection place:

Thunderbird Park, Victoria, Vancouver Island

Culture or time period:

Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)

Collection date:

1960-1965

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Masks (costume), Motion pictures (moving images), and Motion pictures (visual works)

Function:

5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies

Department:

Still and motion photography