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Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-4581, described as Carved wooden mask representing human face. Painted red, white, blue and black. 2 pendants attached by cotton cloth to framework of bent twigs. "Horns" painted with 3 black bands. Red cedar.

Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6462, described as Finger mask; wooden; feathers missing; paint very faded (red, bluish-black, and white); single finger hold.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6474, described as Mask; wooden; anthropomorphic; painted red with black mustache, beard, eyebrows, and scalp line; inserted peg teeth; circlet of wolf hair attached to skin at top; feathers missing; rawhide tie.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-4574, described as Wooden; painted white, red and black; 2 hand attachments; 1 paddle-like attachment; double hoop encircling top and sides of mask; baleen pieces and spruce root and fish skin binding; central face.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6442, described as Wooden mask - most likely of sculpin; painted teardrop shape with round face in lower part; face has crescent mouth with peg teeth, 1 round eye, smaller crescent opposite; white face, otherwise black with fingertip-applied white dots; red paint lining mouth, eyes, and all other openings; black designs on bottom half of face. 2 leg-shaped appendages attached to left side of face. Bird quill attachments and feather.

Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6460, described as Finger mask; wooden with animal face; blue forehead and nose, white cheeks, red border; feathers missing; single finger hole.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-5851, described as Wooden; painted red, white and gray-green; fish attachment on top; 2 hand flipper attachments at lower sides; paddle-like attachment at upper left; was probably once encircled with caribou hair; baleen and spruce root "attachers"; peg teeth. Ray states this mask made by same person as 2-5854.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-4603, described as Wooden; painted white, gray-green, and red; numerous attachments (2 mammal heads, 4 paddle-like pieces at corners, 2 arms, 2 "doughnut-shaped" objects with 5 small paddle-like pieces attached); encircled by a hoop; baleen, sinew, rawhide, and fish skin bindings; face in center of mask. Includes 2-6627 described as "Round wooden ornament with three paddles." One paddle lost pre-1967. Damaged on loan 10/2/67; upper left flap bent and loosened, restored.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6456, described as Finger mask; wooden with black and white animal-like face; with feathers; red base, eyes, and mouth; 2 fingerholds.

Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6454, described as Finger mask; wooden with sinew binding; painted red and white; double finger hold.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-4581, described as Carved wooden mask representing human face. Painted red, white, blue and black. 2 pendants attached by cotton cloth to framework of bent twigs. "Horns" painted with 3 black bands. Red cedar.

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Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6474, described as Mask; wooden; anthropomorphic; painted red with black mustache, beard, eyebrows, and scalp line; inserted peg teeth; circlet of wolf hair attached to skin at top; feathers missing; rawhide tie.

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Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-4574, described as Wooden; painted white, red and black; 2 hand attachments; 1 paddle-like attachment; double hoop encircling top and sides of mask; baleen pieces and spruce root and fish skin binding; central face.

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Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6442, described as Wooden mask - most likely of sculpin; painted teardrop shape with round face in lower part; face has crescent mouth with peg teeth, 1 round eye, smaller crescent opposite; white face, otherwise black with fingertip-applied white dots; red paint lining mouth, eyes, and all other openings; black designs on bottom half of face. 2 leg-shaped appendages attached to left side of face. Bird quill attachments and feather.

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Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-5851, described as Wooden; painted red, white and gray-green; fish attachment on top; 2 hand flipper attachments at lower sides; paddle-like attachment at upper left; was probably once encircled with caribou hair; baleen and spruce root "attachers"; peg teeth. Ray states this mask made by same person as 2-5854.

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Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-4603, described as Wooden; painted white, gray-green, and red; numerous attachments (2 mammal heads, 4 paddle-like pieces at corners, 2 arms, 2 "doughnut-shaped" objects with 5 small paddle-like pieces attached); encircled by a hoop; baleen, sinew, rawhide, and fish skin bindings; face in center of mask. Includes 2-6627 described as "Round wooden ornament with three paddles." One paddle lost pre-1967. Damaged on loan 10/2/67; upper left flap bent and loosened, restored.

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Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6456, described as Finger mask; wooden with black and white animal-like face; with feathers; red base, eyes, and mouth; 2 fingerholds.

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