Human and animal faces are often part of traditional Northwest Coast design. Some are quite realistic, as on this drawing and this painted skin 'poncho'.

This corner box design is easily recognizable as a face.

A stylized face.

Many chests have profile faces on the left and right sides of the main panel.

This is 2 views of the front and back of the same chest. Compare the side faces.

Front and back of another box, compare the two face forms.

Some boxes and dishes have abstracted faces. The faces on the sides of this dish are upside down, while the ends are right side up.
Can you tell what is depicted?
Are they animal forms or human?

Eyebrow forms

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