First Nations Carved Mini Mask

Carving made from red cedar wood with a small metal loop attached to the top for hanging or wearing as a pendant. Painted in a soft light blue base with prominent black and white details. Features traditional formline-inspired eye and eyebrow shapes, a prominent angular nose, and a simple carved mouth. Cecil Dawson Bio: Kwakuitl Nation Born into a family of artists, Cecil Dawson began his artistic career at a very young age. His grandfather Jimmy Dick, a totem and mask carver, taught Cecil the intricacies of carving. Cecil also spent time under the tutelage of his cousin, mask carver Simon Dick. Other masters who influenced Cecil's artistic gifts were his great uncles Willie Seaweed, Henry Speck, and Dick Hawkins. Cecil is from the Kwakwaka'wakw First Nation. He is now chief, passed down from his late father, of the Mountain Goat Hunter clan and his mother comes from the Wolf clan. Cecil's cultural involvement is important to him; he is a historian and an initiated Hamatsa dancer. Cecil's great labour of love is to replicate his family's masks and bring them back into ceremonial use once again.