Word: kwakiutls
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...clarify and dramatize all this artistic tomahawkery, the exhibition's directors, René d'Harnoncourt, Frederic Douglas and Henry Klumb, had carpentered one of the trickiest jobs of installation in the museum's history. Towering South Alaskan Kwakiutl idols leered from dimly-lit corners; ceremonial masks hung like primitive waxworks in their showcases, their hollow eyes lit at shadowy angles by concealed spotlights...