Photograph

Museum number:

13-6868

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21130006868

Alternate number:

13-6003

Accession number:

Acc.4704

Description:

Dancer wearing an owl mask. Mask carved by George Walkus of Smith Inlet about 1920. Chief Charlie George at right. Blunden Harbour, B.C.; 1951. Per Door Book/Accession Record: Dancer with owl mask, Chief Charlie George at right.

Donor:

William R. Heick

Collection place:

Blunden Harbor, British Columbia, Canada

Culture or time period:

Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)

Collector:

William R. Heick

Collection date:

1951

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Masks (costume)

Accession date:

March 22, 2000

Department:

Still and motion photography

Dimensions:

width 27.94 centimeters and length 31.115 centimeters

Comment:

Per labels provided by Ira Jacknis: Dancer wearing an owl mask, Chief Charlie George at right. Blunden Harbour, B.C., 1951. The owl mask, carved y George Walkus of Smith Inlet about 1920, was worn by Joe Seaweed, Willie Seaweed's son, in Dances of the Kwakiutl. The mask, which was collected the year after filming, is now in the Burke Museum, University of Washington. Charlie George, a rival chief, was another prominent artist of the area.