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Techniques:
Hand sculpted and carved low fired clay body/face, bird head, wings, and spirit hands (clay body stained with wood stain and rubbed off of face area); high fired hand sculpted porcelain beak, teeth, and spirit faces; hand bent walnut frame and supports; fused glass beads representing spirits made by the artist; feathers hand painted after photo taken; spirit symbols painted on back of mask; human blood applied to back area of mask.
Materials:
Low fire clay, porcelain, fused glass, walnut, wild turkey feathers, wood stain, acrylic paints, rawhide, & synthetic sinew.
This mask sculpture is in the permanent collection of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Oregon
Dimensions: 36”w X 45”h X 14”d.
Completed in May 2006.
Yup'ik Value:
Caurailngarpeknaci pingnatugturluci
Always trying, never without
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