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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 4445124, member: 55&quot;]Well... this is a forgery, or fake, based on a NW Coast Bear mask. Sold by the thousands.</p><p>Identification, based on the type of wood- an open-grain wood, usually called albesia or acacia, not available on the West coast of US or Canada; and by the specific design, identical to those sold by the major importers.</p><p>And one could go on - this shade of gray, for example, is common on the fakes; but gray is extremely rare on NW Coast Native masks.</p><p>Carved in Bali as a cottage industry, where the carvers earn about $1 per mask; usual retail price around $50.</p><p>Given a few minutes, I can find dozens of identical - I mean absolutely identical - masks sold, both honestly as imports, and by sellers on ebay and elsewhere misrepresenting them as genuine Native work.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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