This led to years of careful and collaborative discussion between the U'mista Cultural Centre and the British Museum, and in 2005 the potlatch mask was sent on long-term loan. Little was known about the long history of the mask until Gloria Cranmer Webster, a Kwakwaka'wakw (First Nation community) anthropologist and daughter of Chief Dan Cranmer, identified the mask from a photograph. Several years later Harry Beasley, a British collector, acquired one of these masks – the Kwakwaka'wakw potlatch transformation mask – and later, in 1944, his wife, Irene Beasley, donated it to the British Museum. The series centred around the exploits of International Rescue, a global response organisation founded by billionaire ex-astronaut Jeff Tracy on a beautiful island somewhere in the Pacific. The Canadian government then sold many of these masks on to North American museums. Thunderbirds first launched onto British television in 1965, and for many fans remains the pinnacle of the Gerry Anderson legacy. They were offered shorter prison sentences if they surrendered their masks and regalia to the authorities. Thunder and lightning are attributed to the thunderbird, which produces. When the ceremony was discovered by the authorities, 26 people were arrested and put in prison. Thunderbird, a supernatural creature prominent in Northwest Coast Indigenous myths. On Christmas Day in 1921, Chief Dan Cranmer held a potlatch in the village of 'Mimkwamlis, Village Island, British Columbia.
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