Conserving cultures in the 21st Century
Join Ipswich Museum's conservator, Robert Entwistle, has he explores the process and methods used to maintain and care for our north American first nations collection.
Ipswich has a fine, but small, collection of Nortwest Coast tribal collections.
Two masks will feature in the BBC Civilisations AR App:
Dance mask, British Columbia (IPSMG: R.1948-214.9) - the mask of Noohlmahl, a fool dancer, from the Kwakwaka’wakw indigenous peoples. It is believed this mask was made by the Kwakiutl tribe. The mask would have been used in their Winder Dance ceremonies. The Noohlmahl’s role in the ceremonies was to help police and protect them by ensuring traditional and protocol was followed. Any transgressions would result in the Noohlmahl dance or act wildly in protest to and improper conduct.
Portrait Mask, Queen Charlotte Islands (IPSMG: R.1992-90.674) - This mask is a portrait of a woman from the Haida people. She is depicted with a plug in her lower lip. Lip-plugs were worn exclusively by women of the indigenous people of the North West Pacific coast of America and Canada and were a mark of status.
'Conserving cultures in the 21st Century' made possible with Art Fund support.
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