Komawe or “Rich Woman” is a quintessential Beau Dick mask. Carved into life by Beau, her greed-repelling grimace immortalizes the artist’s commitment to Potlatch values, where to be rich means to give it all away. In Kwakwaka’wakw legend, Komawe is a powerful, pan-cultural female spirit who is the wife of the fearsome Baxwbakwalanuxwsiwe’, the Cannibal-at-the-North-End-of-the-World. Her presence i…