Object name: Mask / Donor: Benjamin Bristol / Culture or time period: Alaskan Eskimo - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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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.

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.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-5848, described as Wooden bird face; very faded gray-green and red paint; a beak originally fitted into a square 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.