Image of a Sxwayxwey mask. This photograph may have been provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." Photograph may have been taken by Bill Holm

Image of a Sxwayxwey mask carved by Andrew Charles. This image was provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." Likely photographed by Bill Holm.

Image of a Sxwayxwey mask. May have been provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for use in his book "The Way of the Masks." Photographer may have been Bill Holm.

Image of a Sxwayxwey mask. May have been provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for use in his book "The Way of the Masks." Photographer may have been Bill Holm.

Image of a Sxwayxwey mask. May have been provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for use in his book "The Way of the Masks."

Image of a Sxwayxwey mask from the Museum of Anthropology. Photograph was likely provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." Photograph was likely taken by Bill Holm.

Image of a Sxwayxwey mask carved by Andrew Charles. This image was provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." Likely photographed by Bill Holm.

Image of a Sxwayxwey mask from the Museum of Anthropology. Photograph was likely provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." Photograph was likely taken by Bill Holm.

Image of a Sxwayxwey mask from the Museum of Anthropology. Photograph was likely provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." Photograph was likely taken by Bill Holm.

Image of a Sxwayxwey mask from the Museum of Anthropology. Photograph was likely provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks". Photograph was likely taken by Bill Holm.

Image of a Sxwayxwey mask. May have been provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for use in his book "The Way of the Masks." Photographer may have been Bill Holm.

Image of a Sxwayxwey mask. May have been provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for use in his book "The Way of the Masks."

Image of a Dzunuk'wa mask and a Sxwayxwey mask. Photograph was likely provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." Photograph was likely taken by Bill Holm.

Image of a Dzunuk'wa mask and a Sxwayxwey mask. Photograph was likely provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." Photograph was likely taken by Bill Holm.

Image of a Sxwayxwey mask carved by Andrew Charles. This image was provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." Photograph was likely taken by Bill Holm.

Sxwayxwey mask from the Museum of Anthropology. This image was likely provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." Photograph was likely taken by Bill Holm.

Image of a Sxwayxwey mask from the Museum of Anthropology's collection.

Sxwayxwey mask on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".

Sxwayxwey masks on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".

Item is a sound recording of material used in the UBC course, Anthropology 431. The recording features a speaker discussing Coast Saalish and Kwakwaka'wakw masks in terms of similarities and differences in form and meaning, particularly in reference to writing on the subject by Claude Levi-Strauss. The recording is related to the MOA exhibition Kwakiutl Masks: An Expression of Transformation, which took place from April 15 to December 31, 1979. The content of the recording is repeated three times.