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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;komokwa, post: 302538, member: 301&quot;]The hummer is a more recent tourist carving....there&#039;s flocks of em...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The mask is Tsonokwa, the Wild Woman of the Woods.</p><p>Done in beautiful red cedar , this Kwakiutl style &amp; design was a popular first step in the student mask carving process.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1970, Tony Hunt established the Arts of the Raven Gallery in <a href="http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/victoria/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/victoria/" rel="nofollow">Victoria</a>, BC, overseeing an apprenticeship program for aspiring young Aboriginal carvers.</p><p><br /></p><p>A wealth of masks like this , from the Hunt family as well as many of their students were carved and sold there.</p><p>They became popular with the tourist trade in Victoria, &amp; launched the careers of many well known.....and lesser known carvers.</p><p>Although some were signed...mostly the Hunt&#039;s, many others left the Island in the hands of a welcoming public , never to be associated with the artist who created them.</p><p>The mask is identified by it&#039;s half moon style, overly thick amount of red cedar wood , and a lack of any real carving on the inside , for it was vastly more important to practice getting the face structure ... balance &amp; symmetry , to where it had to be .</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]98938[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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