Forensic visualization of two Kwakwaka’wakw <i>ḱiḱw</i>

This study presents a forensic reconstruction of two Kwakwaka’wakw house posts (<i>ḱiḱw</i>) digitally reconstructed and visualized in their original viewing conditions. After demonstrating how the visual parameters of winter ceremonial activity would have significantly altered the appearance of the posts, I use research in optics and neuroscience to explain how light-dependent features of colour perception and face recognition facilitate such transformations.