Culture or time period: Arctic cultures / Materials: Feather (material) / Function: 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Dance apron, accession number 11-374, described as Dance apron of fiber, feather covered, and with shell bead weaving. With black beads.

Hearst Museum object titled Finger mask, accession number 2-4591, described as Finger mask; wooden; encircled with caribou hair; one long feather; nose like a beak; painted brown-red, white, and black; left half of handhold missing.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-72098, described as Alaskan Mask; hand carved wooden, painted white mask; feathers, one on each side, protruding and set next to eyes. Mask is in shape of a turtle with facial features painted on in blue and red and eye and nostril holes carved in. Legs of turtle decorated in red and blue paint, head same. Wooden handle curves around top half of mask, nailed in at sides.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6478, described as Wood; 3 round holes (2 eyes, 1 mouth); white with red band around the head; goose feathers in top border.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-4604, described as Wooden; anthropomorphic; wide mouth; fragmentary feathers; central face; whitish; chin, lower lip, border are pale red-brown; forehead and nose are black as are 2 lines that radiate from the eyes and the nose base to the edge of the mask; on the reverse side eyes and mouth rimmed with red.

Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6477, described as Wooden; anthropomorphic; hinged, moveable jaw; painted red with black mustache, beard, eyebrows; inserted peg teeth; circlet of wolf hair attached to skin at top; feathers (1 separate, 1 missing); rawhide tie and fastenings.