y_001. Painting on a drumhead, by Gusma, Bethel, 1937.
Diameter of drumhead averages 25.5 in. Widest diameter of the circle: 6.5 in. University of Alaska Museum. Collected by Hans Himmelheber during the course of his research at Bethel and Nunivak Island. Another photograph of this drumhead is illustrated in his Eskimokunstler with the caption, "Dreadful experience of a widow with a pack of wolves. The "dreadful experience" is drawn with black paint.
y_002 . Walrus tusk carved on Nunivak Island, about 1924, and collected by Knud Rasmussen.
Length: 27 in. The National Museum, Copenhagen. A black mineral serves as pupils of all the eyes, which are ringed with red. The "whiskers" are black. The tail end is also a chain link. Notice the small fish or animal emerging from the mouth of the topmost seal.
al_001 . Aleut masks observed by the Billings expedition, and illustrated by Martin Sauer in 1802.
All of the masks represent human faces, although the bottom middle one apparently depicts the half-man-half-animal being.
al_002. Masks from Prince William Sound.
These are also illustrated as drawings in Dall 1884, but Birket-Smith said thet some of the drawings were "slightly incorrect."
al_003. "Loon Spirit," a triptych in wood by John Hoover, Aleut, 1971. Height:44.5 in.
Made of red cedar, polychromed. (A) is the inside view. (B) shows it closed.
al_004. Household utensils and other objects from Alaska Peninsula, Oonalashka, and Kodiak, 1805.
1. A bag made of fish skins from Alaksa.
2. A leather finger-case, used as a shield by the women of Alaksa when they are sewing (notice the loops which appear to be similar in the Aleut kamleika).
3. A rattling sort of instrument from Kodiak, made of the beaks of sea-parrots (puffins), and used to beat the time in dancing.
4 and 5. Ornaments for the ears, made of the shell called sea-tooth (dentalium).
6. A lip ornament of the Aleutians, of its natural size, made of pieces of bone and glass beads: it is ingeniously inserted into an opening made in the upper lip.
7. Speciment of sort of embroidery done by women of Oonalashka, upon leather with the hair of the reindeer (caribou).
8. A head-dress, made of mole-skin from Alaksa.
9. A basket made of straw from Oonalashka.
10 and 11. Straw poket-books from Oonalashka.
12. A head-dress with a great deal of embroidery, only worn by Aleutians at their dancing-festivals. The bunch of goats-hair flying about is considered as extremely ornamental.