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Description "Fig. 128 HEAD MASK OF NĀ'NAQAUALIL, REPRESENTING THE HŌ'XHOK w ". According to Kate Duncan, "With its cedar bark ruff and carved wooden skulls hanging below, the mask represents one of the cannibal bird helpers of Bakbakwalinooksiwey..."
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Source Originally from Frans Boas's The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians (1897). Scanned from reproduction in Kate C. Duncan, 1001 Curious Things , University of Washington Press, 2000, ISBN 0295980109 , p. 13.
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