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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 82173, member: 55&quot;]That link works, don&#039;t know why the re-direct does not, today. </p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I&#039;m not sure that anyone knows exactly how the white undercoat originated, and I haven&#039;t asked Bill Holm that specific question; certainly if anyone knows it would be him.&nbsp; I might guess that it originated in the Hamatsa dances, as a way to make masks glow in the firelight, during a time when Seaweed and others were seeking new ways to make the old masks more visible.&nbsp; Seaweed was famous for adding moving parts that would reveal copper linings when lifted, which must have really produced a flash of light; and this was something that had not been seen before, so far as we know.&nbsp; And as a guess, the white then migrated from the masks to the poles.&nbsp; It definitely is associated with particular families and locations, and not others.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Willie Seaweed, sometimes an Alert Bay resident, was certainly the best known practitioner, thanks to Holm&#039;s book on him, but the Walkus poles are just about as good, and as innovative; and there were a number of others.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Unfortunately, Hilary Stewart has suffered a medical setback and is no longer able to enlighten us as to why she thought of the white as the Blunden Harbor/Smith Inlet style.....but I&#039;m just following her footnote in that respect.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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