Best of the West Antique & Native American Auction: November 12th, 2022
Sat, Nov 12, 2022 11:00AM EST
Live Auction
Lot 49
Kwakiutl Face Mask By Coast Salish Gary Rice
Estimate: $750 - $1,500
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Featured in this lot is an Original Signed Hand-carved Pacific Northwest Kwakiutl Face Mask by renown Coast Salish artist Gary Rice. Original and authentic Indigenous masks from the Pacific Northwest Coast are usually carved from yellow cedar, red cedar, and alder. As these are based on a living tradition, most contemporary West Coast Native artists focus on, and interpret the stories as well as the totems to which they have hereditary rights. Masks and headdresses are mainly inspired by the Haida and Kwakiutl peoples; Kwakwaka'wakw masking traditions from Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), and Kwakiutl people from Vancouver Island, and British Columbia's West Coast. As well as being popular with art collectors, Northwest Coast masks continue to play an integral role in cultural and ceremonial practice. Masks often represent spirit creatures, animals, and myths. Four colors – black, red, blue and green – have consistently been used on the Northwest Coast for thousands of years in spite of outside influences and the historic availability of an infinite array of colors. The integration of this color palette with the cosmologies, rituals and daily life of Northwest Coast indigenous peoples has become as important as the form and function of objects, the unique structure of the art form and is so iconic the entire coast is identified with and by these colors. This Kwakiutl Face Mask is in very fine condition, no marring noted, measures 9"W x 12"L x 5.5"D
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