Object name: Figure / Collection place: Aleutian Islands, Alaska / Culture or time period: Alaskan cultures - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Figure, accession number 2-6636, described as Human head and torso (no arms), face schematically indicated, tongue protruding. Dark-stained carved wood. Carved, only the face is explicitly carved; mouth turned up. Part of shaman's paraphernalia. Presumed to be representation of the personae of the dead. (fide Lydia Black, June 1978). With burial.