y-676. Human/Fox masks made for a Messenger Feast, Nunivak, 1946.
Many accounts depict ircenrrat as half human and half animal, and dance masks representing them often have human features running down one side and animal features down the other. Here the red half depicts a human and the blue half a fox.
y-678. One of a dozen nepcetat collected in southwestern Alaska by Jacobsen, 1893.
Angalkut used this mask for hunting in spring. The outstretched feet and arms signify the power of angalkut, supported by tuunrat through the world. Above the forehead sits a tuunraq identified through special "totems," caribou (land animal) and white whale (sea mammal): "This means that the time is comming when game will soon come back, through the power of the shamans." Note the unusual five-fingered hands.
y-6239. Walrus Mask.
Like nepcetat, the plaque of this mask has five holes beside which five carved animals originally sat. Five feathers decorate the rim. The mask is small and may have been worn as a forehead mask.
y-6298. Qissunaq bird mask.
Collected by Waskey in 1946. Used with the white fox mask in the qasgiq in Qissunaq.