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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
among certain Indians of the B.C. coast, a carved wooden mask worn during the name-giving ceremony.
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1953
The men followed the chiefs to war, made weapons, canoes, houses, totem-poles, name-masks. [Caption] The name-mask here illustrated was collected by the Indian agent at Meltakatla in 1912.