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[–]Vigte 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

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Wut? Even his main twitter page is full of creepy masks?

He also posts this on his main page: "NOTE: RTs/follows are not to be read unfailingly as endorsements. I sometimes post material with which I do not agree."

Anyway, when you gain the spot-light; all your dirt really shows up. The issue is no one is perfect and we shouldn't expect the "actors" in this kabuki theater to be such. Everyone can find something dirty about anyone if they look for it.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Creepy masks are in every shrinks office, no?

Actually, the large mask on his left is Pacific NorthWest First Nations. I am a huge fan of their art and culture. I have like 80 books on their totem poles and art alone. (It was a phase before the internet.) In 2004 I actually declined to direct on an animated series of their legends for Nat Geo and the Aboriginal Channel because I didn't feel it was authentic enough (may have been a career mistake, maybe not). That large mask's eyes are covered over, and the the original styles have all largely blurred together, generally in a more northern style - as that mask seems to lean toward Haida or K'san - yet the eyes are small though hidden behind the "hair" and might indicate a more Southern nation like the Kwakwaka'wakw or Kwakiutl - or even Nootka.

The other mask is strange to me. It has elements of some traditional NW Pacific culture - the hooked nose and fatter lip disc labret indicate a woman, perhaps an owl-woman. But the lack of other decoration and shape are not familiar, though I'm not an expert on masks or any specific part of their art and culture. Futher the red horns seem like a fake/modern thing.

Both of the masks are using foreign green colours. White/plain wood, black, red, and turquoise were the dominant colours until the Iron Man (their name for the White Man who brought iron) arrived in abundance in the 1800s with new colours and paints. The North and Alaska didn't really embrace the new colours.

Some of my old sketches from 16-20 years ago:
* https://infogalactic.com/info/File:RavenStealsTheSunshine_400x400.png
* https://infogalactic.com/info/File:SunshineHaidaWolf_White_400x400.png
* https://infogalactic.com/info/File:HaidaDancer_400x400.png