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Behind the masks.

De Volpi, Davide. (Added Author). Taylor, John. (Added Author). Levi-Strauss, Claude. (Added Author). Shandel, Tom. (Added Author). Reljic, Shelah. (Added Author). National Film Board of Canada (Added Author).

Summary: A fascinating look at the meaning behind the masks of Indian tribes of the North Pacific coast. Expositor and lecturer Professor Levi-Strauss of Paris, world-renowned anthropologist and authority on the structural analysis of myth, is here featured speaking to students at the University of British Columbia, where he explains the significant features of three particular masks and the stories associated with them; and during a field trip in which he visits Ron Hamilton, an Indian carver on Vancouver Island.

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  • Physical Description: videorecording
    videocassette
    1 videocassette (37 mins.) : col. ; 1/2 in.
  • Publisher: [Montreal] : National Film Board of Canada, p[1988], c1973.

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General Note:
National Film Board of Canada : C 0173 152
Creation/Production Credits Note: Producer, John Taylor; director, Tom Shandel; photographer, Davide de Volpi; editor, Shelah Reljic.
Subject: Indians of North America -- Northwest, Pacific -- Masks
Indians of North America -- Northwest coast of North America -- Masks
Masks
Art, Primitive

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