The design for the ceremonial Eskimo mask comes from a shaman's dream. Fantastical, with a wide grin of pointed teeth and a halo of feathers, it is a highly expressive piece of Native American art — ...
This illustrated description and analysis of the masks collected by Knud Rasmussen from the Eskimos of Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea off northwest Alaska, includes museum descriptions, Rasmussen's ...