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Human/Bear Masks
Year: 1999
Artist: Dempsey Bob
Dimensions and materials: Red cedar, horse hair, acrylic paint | Human/Bear Mask 152 x 76 x 61 cm; Bear/Human Mask 213 x 91 x 61 cm
Terminal: Domestic
Level: Level 2
Security access: Before security
Two masks by Tahltan-Tlingit artist Dempsey Bob reveal this artist's distinctive style. Carved in red cedar and selectively painted, these works declare the artist's family connection with the Bear clan and acknowledge the special kinship between bears and human beings. In "Bear/Human Mask," a small human figure with long black hair crouches between the ears of a bear; in "Human/Bear Mask," the small face of a bear, with human teeth and extended tongue, is perched on the forehead of a human mask.
