Kwakwaka Wakw Masks

The Kwakwaka’wakw is a tribe that built a prosperous culture that reflects their natural environment ;it is located in British Columbia, Canada. Many things that souley set apart the Kwakwaka’wakw from others are their degree of diversity in their types of masks. In particular the transitional eagle mask. The transitional eagle mask was used in celebration and during a potlatch. The masks were only one part of a costume that included a cloak made of red cedar bark. Many of the masks that were made embellish variety of complex brightly colored surfaces. These masks used elements such as the formline style. In the display at the Brooklyn Museum the mask provide and example that of the formline style, the mask in the museum displays a color