A powerful and dramatic old Eskimo mask, 18th or 19th Century, more a clan votive object than a worn dance mask with there being no suspension holes, likely found in the summer-thawed ground of the arctic region of Alaska, similar stylistically to the earliest Eskimo masks which were made of stone, this example made of wood, perhaps cedar,

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