The wooden mask is carved in an elongated oval shape, with a polished smooth surface. The wood is very dark in color. The face shows arching brows and a small ridge running vertically on the forehead from between the eyes to the top of the mask....
This round wood mask (16 x 13 x 5 cm) has arched eyebrows stained darker than the rest of the wood. The left eyebrow curves down to become the nose, which is triangular, with two round nostrils, and slightly flaring nostril arches. The face is...
A leaf shaped, wooden mask (28 x 17 x 6.5 cm), with distinctive horizontal ridges as forehead/top of head and chin, and three concentric circular ridges ringing central facial features. Eyes are leaf-shaped slits below one of the ridges, slightly...
Male mask; carved wooden face. Snow goggles of wood with faint pink wash are attached; fur mustache and beard; wolf fur ruff; furs are nailed to wood; sinew cord on back for hanging; 16" long. Created in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska.
Wood, male; trimmed with wolf ruff; dark fur eyebrows; mustache and beard of brown and white fur; mouth, eyes, nostrils open, Unpainted, 9" long, "Kakeina" written in pencil on back; string lopped through nostrils for hanging. Mask was created in...
Katexac, Bernard (artist). Walrus mask; stained red; holes for whiskers; stained black; two wooden natural color tusks set in; seal skin thong for fastener; 22.2 cm long; crack in left cheek; signed "Bernard Katexac - 68" on back of mask.¬ulture:...
Manook, (Buster) Ronald James (artist). Size: 6.75 x 8.5 in. Medium: Wood, feathers, nails, glass Wood, raven head. Face is split in half with white wooden "bill" shape inside 4 chicken (?) Feathers inserted. Split halves are painted black, bill...
Title taken from caption. Image of an item removed from a dig site on Umnak Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Ryan, Bert (artist). Sculpture of cottonwood, abalone, acrylic paint, human hair, and leather strap. Size: 20 x 25.5 x 7 in. The cottonwood was given to Ryan by Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Anchorage artist) from a tree in her yard. Artist information:...
Made: St. Michael
Descriptive Narrative: A wolf mask with large mouth set with teeth that are carved out of the solid. Slender, toothpick-like whiskers on each side of the mouth, which is painted red. A line from the mouth goes up the center...
Katexac, Bernard (artist). Raven mask; wood; one piece; entire face, including beak, is painted black; inside of mouth and tongue are red; eyes are round, painted white. Measures 21.6 cm long and has a leather thong for fastener.¬ulture: Inupiaq
Title taken from information with photo. View of Eskimo whalebone mask made in Point Hope, Alaska. Oct. 4, 1958. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 10" x 8 1/8".
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Large wooden shield-shaped mask with a round face in the center with pegged teeth. Several fish protrude through the shield of the mask. "No. 1" is written in pen on the back of mask. Blue, red and white pigment are used on the surface.¬ulture:...
Alaska Native mask made at Mekoryuk on Nunivak Island, Alaska, with figures of fish and hand. From information with photo: [Photo used in article entitled] "Nunivak Island Reindeer Story - August 1954. By Howard Kosbau and Ward W. Wells, Anchorage,...
Ryan, Bert (artist). Sculpture of alder wood, copper, acrylic paint. Mask is in one piece with flange that has cutout shapes. Black and red paint and copper shapes used as decoration.(copper eyebrows and mustache held on with copper rivets)....
A large, squarish mask with a face and 3 spirit rings framing it on all sides except bottom. The fish heads protrude above face with carvings on them. The face has goggles painted on it and whiskers in a black stain. The head is blue paint and the...
Hewson, Wayne (artist). Video, 57 seconds MPG format. Wayne Hewson is a Tsimshian carver from Metlakatla, Alaska. Hewson's carving career began in 1967 in a boarding school in Wrangell, when he used a pocketknife and a bar of soap to carve a...
Title from caption. Bottom right corner of the image also bears the inscription "Shade." Image shows several dozen men, women, and children dressed in costumes for a masquerade ball, posing on a wooden floor for a photograph at Fort...