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Start Over Materials Sinew (material) Function 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-4584a-d, described as Wooden mask; painted white, red, and black; peg teeth; 2 hand attachments; 3 spiraled stick attachments (stylized human figures, according to Ray); one pointed attachment at chin; large double hoop with fish skin binding.. Long with hoop frame and mobile parts: 2 hands & 4 spiraled sticks (one lost) attached with baleen. The face with its 2 hands seen in the front is the spirit appearing from the back of a white animal swimming (seen in profile probably a polar bear).

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