This cod mask portrays the Nuu-chah-nulth lunar eclipse story. Legend has it there is a supernatural codfish that lives in the skyworld and it swallows the moon and spits it back out, which creates the eclipse. The moon is shown in the tongue of the codfish.
Lunar Eclipse Cod Mask
Moy Sutherland (Nuu-chah-nulth)
$40,000.00
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