Hamatsa Crooked Beak Dancer by Gordon Scow, Kwakiutl art

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Hamatsa Crooked Beak Dancer by Gordon Scow, Kwakiutl art

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Absolutely beautiful and masterfully hand carved figurine

Wooden HAMATSA DANCER, Crooked Beak by Gordon Scow, a member of the Kwakiulth First Nations, originating from Alert Bay, British Columbia's Pacific Northwest Coast

This piece is articulated; the beak opens if you pull on the string with the piece of Abalone Shell. Really detailed and well thought through piece of art. The painting on the mask itself is very nicely done, clean lines, vibrant colors. The fully hand-crafted wooden body is dressed in lots of wool and fiber. Toes and fingernails are painted in white. Just a beautiful piece all around and a great start for any native art collection. Gordon comes from a large family of well-known artist, and these beautiful little Sculptures are a signature piece.

Measurements: 15" x 5" x 4" 

Meaning: The crooked Beak of Heaven is a mythical creature, part of the Hamatsa (Cannibal Dance Ceremony) - it's one of the giant man-eating birds

Legend: Central to the Hamatsa ceremonies is the story of some brothers who got lost on a hunting trip and found a strange house with red smoke emanating from its roof. When they visited the house they found its owner gone, but one of the house posts was a living woman with her legs rooted into the floor, and she warned them about the frightful owner of the house, who was named Baxbaxwalanuksiwe, a man-eating giant with four terrible man-eating birds for his companions (including Gwaxwgwakwalanuksiwe'/man-eating raven; Galuxwadzuwus/ Crooked-Beak of Heaven; and Huxhukw/supernatural crane who cracks skulls of men). One version of the story describes the giant with mouths all over his body

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$980.00 CDN

$722.06 USD

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