Eagle
by Skip Saunders
(Nuxalk)
Yellow Cedar, paint, bark, copper (11x6x6)
($2250)
Eagle - One of the important rites carried out at a potlatch in the past was the return of a dead ancestor to visit the living. If the deceaseds first ancestor had been an eagle, in that guise the figure will
appear an eagle mask on his head, and his whole body, except perhaps his feet, covered by a large blanket thickly covered with eagle down and furnished with painted wooden wings. (McIlwraith)
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