Agency - English program:.Pacific Centre.

Director, Tom Shandel ; producer, John Taylor ; executive producer, Peter Jones ; camera, David De Volpi, Doug White ; editing, Shelah Reljic ; sound, Jacques Drouin ; re-recording, Bill Armstrong.

Recorded 1973.

A fascinating look at the meaning behind some Indigenous masks from the North Pacific coast. Expositor and lecturer is Professor Claude Levi-Strauss of Paris, world-renowned anthropologist and authority on the structural analysis of myth. Speaking to university students, he explains the significant features of three particular masks and the stories associated with them. During his field trip he visits an Indigenous carver on Vancouver Island.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).