SAM Talks

First Friday Lecture Together Again: Nuxalk Faces of the Sky June 7, 2013 11 am–noon Plestcheeff Auditorium

Created around 1880, the Nuxalk sun mask—made up of a circular corona and an inset mask—will be on view with a mask from the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Joint research by curators at both museums, in consultation with Nuxalk community members, has revealed that the mask in Vancouver was the original inset for our corona and that sometime after 1920 the parts were separated and a different mask was joined with the corona. Join Barbara Brotherton, Curator of Native American Art, as she discusses the reunion of the original pieces, on view with other compelling Nuxalk ceremonial masks from Together Again: Nuxalk Faces of the Sky.

Admission is free to members and adults over the age of 62 on the First Friday of every month. For other visitors, this lecture is free with museum admission.