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Eskimo
mask
Tunghak tribe, Ugashik, southwest Alaska,
collected 1887.
Wood, hair. Note the rictus, a universal trait in the vocabulary
of shamanic masks.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
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Thomas Murray
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