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The local link to the Seahawk logo Coun. Theos lays down challenge ... Page 3
Defending Super Bowl champs don a bit of Island history every game Erin Haluschak Record Staff
Comox council sets utility rates ... Page 4
‘Soup’er food bank campaign ... Page 7 Courtenay council briefs ... Page 9 A 60-cm dump of snow has given Mount Washington a solid 140-cm base. Tips up!
It’s been seven weeks since we’ve been able to drink water straight out of the tap.
Widely known as the 12th man — some of the loudest and most passionate fans in the National Football League — the connection Seattle Seahawks fans have with their team runs deep. As a Seahawks fan since the 1980s, Comox Valley Northwest Coast artist Andy Everson’s connection with the team runs even deeper. That’s because the iconic avian profile logo decorating the entire Seahawks organization is based upon a transformation mask made on Vancouver Island in the 19th century by the Kwakwaka’wakw people. “I was drawn to this logo never realizing it was specifically drawn from our culture,” said Everson, who upholds traditions of both the K’ómoks and Kwakwaka’wakw First Nations. It wasn’t until last year – shortly before the 2014 Super Bowl – when Katie Bunn-Marcuse, assistant director of the Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Native Art at the Burke Museum in Seattle, contacted Everson, making him aware of the connection. Everson explained the graphics company commissioned to create the logo for the Seahawks in the early-1970s came across a book which featured a photo of the mask, and wanted an image which reflected the Pacific Northwest. The museum posted a history
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Kwakwaka’wakw origin, who are from the middle to north end of Vancouver Island and the adjacent mainland. “(The mask) fits so perfectly with the exhibit,” Bunn-Marcuse told the Record. “There’s an increasing amount of iconic pieces from the Northwest Coast with a dramatic esthetic which inspires people to make new things into pop culture from indigenous culture.”
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