Handmade Hide and Fur Mask with Double Eyes, Presumed Nunamiut, Alaskan choker the shape: I love everything

the shape: I love everything about these Japanese fish plates

or Japanning

is it beautiful

San Jose Mission

I'd fill this one with a flowering branch or two and it would make the room

Handmade Hide and Fur Mask with Double Eyes, Presumed Nunamiut, Alaskan choker the shape: I love everythingThis mask is one of the most extraordinary things I've had in my possession, for sure a stunning, exquisitely crafted object that I find unbelievably beautiful and powerful. I I have done a fair amount of research, which has led me to believe that it is Native Alaskan, most likely made by a Nunamiut mask maker from the Anaktuvuk Pass though I am not 100% certain, and indeed, this and the two others I have are superior to any others I have seen.