Image: Boas Kwakiutl mask drawing - cropped
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Description: "Fig. 128 HEAD MASK OF NĀ'NAQAUALIL, REPRESENTING THE HŌ'XHOKw". According to Kate Duncan, "With its cedar bark ruff and carved wooden skulls hanging below, the mask represents one of the cannibal bird helpers of Bakbakwalinooksiwey..."
Title: Boas Kwakiutl mask drawing - cropped
Credit: Originally from Frans Boas's The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians (1897). Scanned from reproduction in Kate C. Duncan, 1001 Curious Things, University of Washington Press, 2000, ISBN 0295980109, p. 13.
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