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Beau Dick (Kwakwaka’wakw, Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nation), Komina (Rich Woman), ca. 2000. Cedar, horsehair, copper and acrylic paint, 45 × 37 × 13 in.
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Komina Woman or "Komunokas", also known as "Qominaga", "Copper Woman" and "Rich Woman" is a quintessential Beau Dick mask. In Kwakwaka’wakw legend, "Rich Woman" is a powerful, pan-cultural female spirit who is the wife of the fearsome Baxwbakwalanuxwsiwe’, the Cannibal-at-the-North-End-of-the-World. Her presence is associated with Frog and Coppers and often accompanied by the cannibal birds at a Hamatsa ceremony. She symbolizes both material wealth and the wealth of wisdom that comes with age. Her greed-repelling grimace immortalizes Dick’s commitment to Potlatch values, where to be rich means to give it all away.
More works by Beau Dick (Kwakwaka’wakw, Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nation)
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Beau Dick (Kwakwaka’wakw, Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nation)
Bukwus Mask, Date unknown
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Beau Dick (Kwakwaka’wakw, Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nation)
Atlakim (set of 3), ca. 1990
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Beau Dick (Kwakwaka’wakw, Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nation)
Inuit Weather Mask, 2015
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Beau Dick (Kwakwaka’wakw, Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nation)
Hamat'sa Bear Headdress, c.1998
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Beau Dick (Kwakwaka’wakw, Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nation)
Crooked Beak, 1994
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