Mask
NA6385
From: Alaska | Nunivak Island
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | NA6385 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Eskimo | Yupik |
| Provenience | Alaska | Nunivak Island |
| Culture Area | Arctic Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Feather | Sinew |
| Description | Wooden dance mask showing a bird and its inua (spirit) as a grinning face on the bird's back. Wooden hoop, feather and six wooden appendages attached by sinew, represent Universe, stars and animal limbs and the environment in which the animals live, respectively. |
| Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Arctic: Nunivak Island / Hooper Bay; William Blair Van Valin, 1919 |
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