Image shows the front south corner of the Potlatch Gallery. Image shows the back south corner of the Potlatch Gallery. Image shows the south wall of the Potlatch Gallery. View from the south-east corner of the Potlatch gallery looking north towards the front of the gallery and centre wall.

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T´łisala - Sun

Alternate colour photograph of T´ŁISALA - SUN mask shot against a black background

The Sun is believed to be a man who came to earth from the heavens and became the first ancestor to a number of Kwakwaka’wakw clans. These people use the sun and his mask as their crest. One legend says this man wears abalone-shell earrings and when he walks across the sky, his abalone-shell earrings catch the light and give daylight to the world.

Owner: Robert Brown, ’Namgis (Alert Bay)

T´łisala