Eagle Moon mask - carved cedar (Mowachaht)

Artist: Patrick Amos, Mowachaht First Nation
This is a 3D cedar wood carving. (the eagle motif is repeated around the brim)
A brief bio of the artist is below. For full bio and gallery of his art work, click on "Artist Patrick Amos" under photo.

Patrick Amos was born into the the Mowachaht Band, one of the fourteen member tribes of the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation. Since 1976 Patrick has been designing limited edition prints. In 1979 he began carving wood, apprenticing with Tony Hunt Sr. at the Art of the Raven Gallery, in Victoria, BC.. Later, he apprenticed with Tim Paul at the Royal British Columbia Museum carving shed in Victoria, carving totem poles.

Patrick had his first solo exhibition in 1991 at the Gallery Indigena in Stratford, Ontario.
The Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria, BC. has several paintings and prints of Patrick's in their permanent collection.