48 second, color/silent, film clip of people engaged in various forms of handiwork. Women are working with leather, perhaps crimping soles with their teeth. Another woman is sitting on a semi-subterranean building grinding something with a...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Haida Indians in ceremonial dress at the last traditional ceremony at Klinkwan before evacuation of the village to Hydaburg, c. 1900. Identified as Robert Edenshaw (left), Edwin Scott (third from left, heir to Kadnes or Dogfish House, in front of...
Hoover, John (artist). Sculpture: wood, brass, paint. Oval shaped wooden wall-hanging mask with hinged sides that open and close. The hinged portions are in the form of salmon. When open, four salmon surround the female face. The salmon are grey...
Hoover, John (artist). Sculpture: wood, brass, paint. Oval shaped wooden wall-hanging mask with hinged sides that open and close. The hinged portions are in the form of salmon. When open, four salmon surround the female face. The salmon are grey...
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
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:...
Katexac, Bernard (artist). Wooden mask, painted orange-brown. Measures 24 x 17 x 8.7 cm. The forehead protrudes above the face, cut at a 90 degree angle above the eyes, which are small round holes. The nose is prominent, triangular and flat at...
Katexac, Bernard (artist). Wooden mask, painted orange-brown. Measures 24 x 17 x 8.7 cm. The forehead protrudes above the face, cut at a 90 degree angle above the eyes, which are small round holes. The nose is prominent, triangular and flat at...
Keithahn instructs a group of school children, using stuffed birds, including a bald eagle and an owl; in the background are a totem pole and panels with Native mask designs
Lambert, Theodore R. (artist). Size: 12.5 x 17 in. Medium: Oil on paint board Signed lower right. Conserved by WCCFA 1998. "A Mask Dance Depicting the Dancer in a Movement Interpreted as that of Paddling a Kayak". R. R. Lambert, March '37 -...
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:...
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...
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.
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...