Descriptive Narrative: Carved wooden mask by Nathan Jackson with earrings by Emma Marks. The natural color of the wood shows through on most of the mask except where hair, eyebrows, and eyes are painted in black, and nostrils and lips in red. A...
Tlingit bear mask carved of wood and painted. Mask is hollowed out with an adze from a single piece of wood. 32 inset shell teeth; abalone pupils. Ears show bear profiles and are each edges with 12 wooden pegs which secure a tuft of dark red-brown...
Title taken from information with photo. View of child sewing fur onto masks in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska, with child sleeping in background. April 1967. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 2 1/4" x 2 1/4".
St. John, Christopher (artist). Size: 40 x 36 x 1.5 in. Medium: Oil on canvas Signed, tilted, and dated verso. Title of original version "Double Header" verso.
One of the original mask of caribou hide stitched together like patchwork. Ear and nose attached. Teeth attached in open mouth; 8 each in upper and lower "jaw"; mustache beard of white hair. Eyebrows/lashes formed by out-turned, hair-side of skin....